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I, R. WELCOMES SEN. CUMMINS JO MOOSERS Colonel Answers Governor Wil son’s Attack on Moose Plat form in St. Louis Speech. • KEOKUK. IOWA. Sept. 4. —Speaking to 300 Progressives in the public square here today. Colonel Roosevelt welcomed Senator Cummins Into the ranks of his followers and said he was highly pleased to learn of the attitude of the senator, who yesterday declared his support of Roosevelt and repudiation of Taft. Senator Cummins has always stood for the fundamental principles for which the Progressives stand, but he may differ with us on some essential points." said the colonel. He referred 10 tli< senator’s statement that he be lieved in ail the principles espoused by th Progressives, saying: "In Lincoln’s day, when he broke away from the Whigs, there were some who did not believe in all the Repub lican party stood for and it is the same way today. But I don’t see how any man can differ with us on the principle of Thou shall not steal.’ " The crowd cheered. The colonel proceeded: ”1 believe when any one steals from you. don’t argue, but search him." There may be men who do not be lieve this is to be a pet manent move,” the colonel explained, referring to Cum mins' expressed opinion "Well, I do, whether I am right or w ong, it ought ■o make no difference in the attitude <>f the Progressives in this election. Tin old parties are rotten to the core. Now, let any man come with us this fall and 1 won’t quarrel about his go ing back to the old parties in the fu ture. Once with us, they’ll like our company and stay with us.” Finds Movement Popular. After first hand observation of condi tions in Missouri and lowa, the colonel Fas told his lieutenants here that Tt is necessary to mime Progressive tickets in th states. His speeches have taken on something of the tang of those de 'ivi-ri d in Vermont, where he demanded »t:p; o t f. r the Progressive state can •lfrln.es as well as for himself at the fail i let ;.i< n. Tit. < vionil's lowa itinerary today ln< aides Mount Zion. Elden, Ottumwa. Oskaloosa and Des Moines. The colonel is pleased with the out look in the Middle West. "There is plenty' of third party sen umr in the West,” he said. "The tignt has just started. By- November 'hole country will wake up to the fact that we are to be reckoned with ■'t the polls.” Why hasn’t He Done Something?” " oodrow Wilson’s stand upon the tariff, the trusts and the minimum wage scale proposition was assailed by' Colonel Roosevelt in St. Louis late yes terday before the Missouri Progressive state convention. Taking up Governor Wilson’s criti cism of the Progressive policy in re gard io regulation of trusts, Colonel Roosevelt asked: "If the Democratic platform really offers any hope for the solution of the trust question, why, during the two 'ears that Mr. Wilson has been gov ernor of New Jersey, has nothing been cone under Mr. Wilson's lead or even attempted by Mr. Wilson in New Jer for the regulation of the trusts?" The colonel was asked to advise the suite convention as to whether it should i amt a full state ticket. "1 felt that you ought to.” he said. I feel that except in those states in which we can take over bodily either of the old parties we ought to run a straight Progressive tic'-et.” Said the colonel: "Yesterday Mr. Wilson, alluding to the third party platform, asked: ‘With that program who can differ in his heart, who can divorce himself in sym pathy from the great object of advanc. ing the interests of human beings wherever it is possible to advance?’ "I am very glad that Mr. Wilson c mtild be with us in his heart: but if his party sympathizes with us in its i t why didn't they in their platform 1 ke a program at least remotely re nbling ours? Our sympathy for the engram is not only w ithin our hearts: 11 is with our heads and our hands About the Tariff. When he comes to the tariff. Mr. " ilson attempts to quote me, but he ■ singularly unsuccessful. He states, for instance, that 1 am not concerned with the 1 interests of the general tax- PH.V' i', tile general public. If he would take the trouble to read "hat 1 have said or to read our plat form, he would find that the commis sion principle which we propose, and '" which he and his party are hostile, as for one of its special objects the '■'ireful consideration of the needs of ie general public. We are advocat ing tile commission system which has ’ < i-n one of the pieces of governmental nd industrial mechanism that have oeen so extraordinarily successful in building up th, great prosperity of the Berman empire. "I believe in protection; I believe that If Mr. Wilson's free trade policy or tariff for revenue only policy is in '■mod faith and not merely treated as a lampaign cry. widespread disaster will r ’-'lit to American life. But T don't believe for a minute hat •> protective tariff by itself offers u> any way or shape the solution for : he economic and social injustice Against which we Progressives are ’•riving. ■Let Mr, Wilson study what has hap- Learning Nature's Secrets City Youngsters Prove BOY SCOUTS SOLVE THE COST OF LIVING v ‘ &•> \\ 'S’ ■ kv ill LirliiiFoWl SUM w w*?, T-. \ J / r6j WOlwflßkFii// MHHMm ’<3 /W 1 ‘ / /jWWWIF • ~ >J /HI F » sUk ■« • . v.<* k' 1 ihfc. ■'* F £aMF’w ' ■' ■iLM MMMBKi sml i z \ Jr' ■ iwSlfew I’.vl Tedd.i Tannenbaum. Bugler. — PROPERTY OWNERS OF MACON’S FASHIONABLE HINES TERRACE IN ROW MACON GA., Sept. 4.—Over a mat ter of six inches the residents of Hines terrace are divided and arrayed against each other. Thirty property owners on the east side want curbing laid at a certain height. Thirty property owners on the west side want the curbing, but say it must be six inches lower than the east siders want. Two petitions have been filed with c‘ ■' council, and.no matter what action t. body takes the affair is going to the courts for settlement. The west side residents and the east side resi dents have each organized and named committees and employed attorneys. Hines terrace is one of the most fash ionable thoroughfares of Macon pened to industry in England and in Germany during the last forty years. During that forty years England has been under a free trade system and Germany has adopted a high ta. iff system. During that forty jears the conditions of the labor world have grown worse in England and better in Germany. Germany has advanced relatively to England HI along the line and especially in the standing of her people. "As to what Mr. Wilson says about the minimum wage I can only say that I disagree with him in toto. We arc only advocating what we are sure can be done and ought to be done. Evi dently Mr. Wilson has not studied the "onditlons about the labor of women in factories. The Trust Question. “Mr. Wilson comes out squarely against our proposal to regulate the trusts. He has not anything to put in its place except a statement that h< stands by the great Democratic think - s who have made the Democratic platform on this subject. ' Mr. Wilson has been governor of New Jersey for nearly two years. If the Baltimore platform really offers any hope for the lrust solution, why du ing these two years has nothing been done by New Jersey under Mr. Wilson's lead for regulation of th< trusts? "The answer is because the states by themselves can not get at the diffi culty and It is pure topyism of the most backward kind to suppose that they can, and incidentally any such policy would have the grinning sup port of every law-breaking trusl. "Mr. Wilson seems to forget that part of bur program is to give to the people themselves direct control over their own government. When the peo ple themselves thus effectively control their own government and the govern ment In its turn controls the big cor porations it seems to me the veriest folly of fear to express apprehension lest under such a system the chief em ployers, as Mu Wilson says, because they have 'this tremendous authority behind them,’ may oppress the wage workers. "We have a genuine constructive policy. Mr. Wilson's plan, as far as 1 can gather, is merely to continue the present futile system, adding fresh and empty protestations of hostility to the trusts, but giving no hint as to any method by which these protesta tions can become more than protesta tions. We must supplement the anti trust law b. the kind of real and efficient governmental control advo cated in the Progressive national plat form or we will not have made on< step toward solving the trust ques tion.” THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 4. 1912. ' Grudge Goodsinsky, one o f the scouts, showing little Rub, Tarpley some of the sights of the eamp. Up and Down Peachtree The Peachtree Girl Sure Keeps Cool. "This is where we women have the laugh on you men" said the Peach tree girl, asking a little more ice in her lemon and lime. "You have been calling us slaves to fashion for lo these many years. And now look at me, ob serve my coolness and then feel of the rag around youi neck which was a col lar when you left home. It is to laugh." "What's the ha-ha about?" returned the man. peevishly, fanning himself with his straw lid. “Why, every winter since the hoop skirt era you men have been horrified at women's dress," explained the girl. "You've been aghast because we go to dances in zero weather with sheer silk stockings, low satin slippers and a gown cut low in the neck. You’ve been prophesying pneumonia since before you could spell it. But you didn’t have to attend many funerals in our set. "And now look at yourself. Thai coat may be thin, but from the way it hugs your, shoulders and the haste with which you throw it of when you get in your office it must feel like il weighs a ton. And that stiff collar you started with! That’s a nice thing to strangle yourself witii in weather like this. And those soft ones are ever worse, for they stick tighter. “Without going into particulars. 1'1! bet an ice cream my things don’t weight a third as much as yours, ob serve the wide hat which shields my’ face from the sun. See the ventilated waist which qdmits the passing breeze Notice the thin fabric of my skirt. Soo how cool and contented I am. "Slaves to fashion! If you men were not afraid to be ‘different’ you'd hang those coats up until fall, have your shirts cut V-shaped, have your trou sers made of some thin, filmy material and quit swearing at the heat. Yes I’ll takel that soda now." How Hot Is It Up And Down Peachtree? "I wish I knew how hat it was— or is," said the rotund drummer, run ning a well-soaked handkerchief around his dripping brow and tucking it under his collar. “But it’s as hard to tell the temperature by Atlanta thermometers as to learn what time it is by a street clock. “1 passed a drug store an hour ago and stopped for a look. There was a column of red mercury in a glass two feet tall, and it said 86 degrees. 1 got cooler right away, but when I noticed it was hanging against a soda fountain full of ice I got all heated up again. “Two doors down the street I saw another weather tester and took a peek it It. It registered 122, and it jumped a degree while I watched it. But it was screwed to a brick wall which had been soaking sunshine all day. “Then I got mad and went on a hum for the real thing. I found thermome ters indoors which ran all the way from 84 to 98, with no apparent reason for the difference. 1 asked a salesman to show me a lot of thermometers un der the pretense of buying one and they had as many different opinions as a third-party’ convention. I don’t know how I’m going to gel the facts.” “Why don’t you ask the official fore caster?" asked a sympathizing friend. "Pish, and a pair of poohs,” said the drummer. "Who gives a dam how hot it is on top of the Empire building. 1 can't sell goods up there. 1 want to know how hot it is up and down Peachtree." And he moved toward a soda foun tain, carefully hugging the wall to keep in the ribbon of shade. Cullud Taste in Hats and Shoes. “No. a four-dollar hat’s a little too high for my shape,” said the customer in the haberdashery. "Make it about three bucks.” “All right.” said the salesman, as the customer picked a lid. “But just wait a minute." A negro about 20 years old his hands knotted from pushing a shovel, walkeo up to the counter, picked out a four dollar fall hat, paid over the coin and walked out, stepping high. “Well, what do you think of that?" remarked the white customer. "How much does that negro earn?” "Perhaps $8 or $lO a week,” said the salesman. “But that's got nothing to do with it. He had four dollars. He wanted a hat. And nothing but the best and the latest will do a negro when he wants to ‘sport.’ "They’re the same about shoes. They'll spend $6 for a pair of patent leathers, wear them to a dance tonight, slash holes in the toes with a knife if they pinch too much, and be perfect ly’ happy. I’ve seen many a man with a $5 hat and $6 shoes when the rest of his outfit wouldn’t bring a dollar at auction. And the queerest thing is that they’ll wear those same fine shoes into the ditch where they're shoveling dirt. You can go to any big gang of negro laborers and see fine hats and shoes being mined in the mud. They won't wear their old things when they have new ones to wear." STATE COLLEGE EXHIBIT. DALTON, GA., Sept. 4.—The Slate College of Agriculture has written for permission to make an exhibit at the Whitfield county fair here the week of October 7, the letter being from G. W. Firor, secretary of the extension work of the college. A prompt and cordial acceptance of the offer hajj been forwarded to him I Keep Alert Guard at Night, as Scout Master Learns to His Pain. A lot of city youngsters are back in to«% today’ with a knowledge of hiw to cook and “keep house” that may solve the cost of living problem in many Atlanta households. They arc members of Boy Scout t oop No. 2, who camped <>ut at Lake wood foY three days, preparing their own food, making their own beds and doing al! the “fixing up" and ai the fame time keeping strict military dis cipline under Scout Master Frank P. Margolin. They demonstrated their alertness one dark night in very striking man ner. Lou Joel was on guard and the scout master decided to >oe If lie was keeping his eyes open. He crawled up on him through the woods and was sud denly ordered to halt. He crawled on. I’he order to halt came twice more ar. I then the scout master felt th- thud of IBoy Scout club across his head ami he has the bump today. Mr. Margolin said today that I-ak, - wood was ha dl.y far enough from the I city for the most effective’ results, and I that next year a spot further from tlu city would be chosen for a three weeks’ stay. The troop will hike to Marietta Ihanksgiving day, having learned how to walk on tramps taken from Lake wood. ST. PAULS CHURCH HOLDS "HOME-COMING” SERVICE All persons who ever have been mem bers of St. Pauls Methodist churc.. at Grant and Sidney streets have been asked to meet again at the ch .rch Thursday for home-coming and reunion services. A special song service w’ill be held and talks on the history of the church will be made by various officials from from the different departments. The members which the church recently hits acquired will be given a reception and welcome by the old members, and for the former members, something of what recently has been accomplished will be told. CANOE PADDLED BY PAIR ACROSS ROUGH CHANNEL DOVER, ENGLAND, Sept. 4—A record for hazardous canoeing was made today when two well known Do ver oarsmen, Burgeat and Waited, pad. died a canoe across the English chan nel to the French coast. The passage was very rough and the high wind threatened every minute to swamp the frail craft. A high wind prevailed. When a mile off the French coast a wave struck the canoe, overturning it. Fortunately, a fishing boat was near by and picked up the canoeists. Apt Pupils PROBLEM Zeke Carnes, the cook SHERIFF SEARCHES CONGREGATION FOR TOTERS OF PISTOLS ROME, GA.. Sept. 4.—The singing land praying of a congregation of ne ! groes did not aw e Sheriff Dunehoo when he entered a church in search of a whisky seller. As soon as the sheriff entered the church he saw a negro with a gun sticking out of his h p nocket. He promptly arrested him. While a dep uty held tile prisoner, the sheriff searched every worshiper in the church to see if any one else there carried a gun. The prison’ r was has tened away, when the search was com pleted, and the services continued. COUNTY SEAT FIGHT IN MURRAY GROWS WARM DALTON, GA„ Sept, i.—The three cornered fight over what town shall be the county seat of Murray grows warmer daily. Eton. Chatsworth and Spring Pl,-tee being the contestants. The Eton people, who have set the pace by offering a free site for the pub lic buildings and SIO,OOO in cash, met an obstacle when they applied to the county paper for advertising space. It was refused them. Then they came to this city and placed their advertising in I’he Citizen, paying for 1,500 sub scriptions in Murray county. The pa per will be sent into practically every heme in the county for this month. COAL OIL STRANGLES BABY; MOTHER DISCOVERS IT DEAD ST. LOUIS, Sept. 4.—Sammy Hickman, two years old, was choked to death yes terday at his home, 1816 Market street, Alton, by swallowing a quantity of coal oil, which was dashed in his face when he pulled the can off a shelf on which it had been placed. The child’s mother, Mrs. Sarah Hick man, was out in the yard when the ac cident occurred. Although only a short distance from the kitchen, Mrs. Hick man says she heard no sound or cry on the part of the baby. Coroner C. N. Streeper held an in quest and returned a verdict of acci dental death. PAPERHANGERS STRIKE IN MACON FOR RAISE MACON. GA.. Sept. 4. The paper hanger of Macon are on a strike. They are only twelve in number, but they control the paper trade of the city, and until the differences between them and their employers are adjusted there will be very little wall paper pasted up in Macon. The paper hangers want a higher wage scale, and their employ ers refuse to giant It. Every pJlper hanger in the city belongs to the union and the union has called the strike. STEPHEN NOLAN’S BATH COST 75 CENTS PLUS sl7 MACON, GA. Sept. 4.—lt cost Steph en Nolan, a well-known Macon man. the sum of $17.75 tc take a bath. He paid the Turkish bath proprietor 75 cents and then he Jumped into a tub. When he emerged he found that his coat had vanished. It contained thr sl7. Coincidently a negro bootblaet also disappeared, and he has not beer taken yet. COUNCIL TO ONE CHAHCEOnNORK ON STREETS Construction Department Reor ganized With Responsibility Assumed by Lawmakers. following the adoption of a plan of reorganization of the city construction department at the meeting of the city council yesterday afternoon, leaders of council declared today that better re sults in street and sewer work would be secured in the future. By the adoption of the plan the council has taken upon itself the re sponsibility for , improvement work. Members of the council have answered the criticisms of their constituents about the lack of street work by de claring that they had done all they could do. They said they had had ap propriations provided, but simply could not get the construction depart ment to do the work. Under the present plan, the chief of construction is elected by the people and Is independent of the council in so far as he chooses, except that the coun cil controls the appropriations. Under the new plan, the council has made the chief of construction amen able to the council in all matters, even taking the authority to approve the appointment of his assistants and to lischarge them But the chief of con struction is still to be eleceted by the people. The new plan goes into effect on January 1 Ten-Year Clause Stays. A majority of the council voted against eliminating the qualification for chief of construction requiring ten years experience as an engineer. The reorganization committee reported in favor of striking out this requirement of eligibility in order that a business man «is well as an engineer might run for the office. Obviously, this action narrows the possibilities of opposition to the pres ent incumbent. And as soon as the council had acted Captain R. M. Clay ton said that he would run for re-elec tion. The special committee wa« continued that it might make a report on the more detailed matters of the depart ment. The council adopted its report that there should be an assistant chief of construction in charge of the detail ed affairs of the office and an en gineer In charge of streets and an en gineer in charge of sewers. One of the criticisms of the council men has been that only the chief of construction has authority over the as sistants and only he has knowledge of the work of the different departments. When the chief of construction was out of the office, they declared, neither they nor any private citizen could find out about construction matters. Experts to Probe Office. Perhaps the most important step in the movement for reorganization of the department will be taken within the next few weeks when the experts, em ployed by the municipal research com mission of the Chamber of Commerce, begins a sweeping investigation of the chief of construction department and all other city departments. These ex perts will go into details of bookkeep ing and the systems of office organiza tion. phases the council and its com mittee have not touched upon. When the report of the council's committee was brought up yesterday afternoon Councilman Harvey Hatcher, chairman of the street committee, and Councilman J. D. Sisson, of the Fifth ward, offered a minority report to re tain the "ten years as an experienced engineer" clause. Led by Councilman Hatcher, a vig orous fight was begun in which the. city’s street Improvement system was clearly sidetracked for a time, and a discussion of personalities was begun. He sought to make if appear that a personal fight was being made on Cap tain Clayton Aiderman McClelland openly declared that the elimination of the qualifica tion was a political effort to oust Cap tain Clayton. When a notion was made to table the whole report of the committee it carried. Report Taken From Table. But Councilmen Mason, Smith and Chambers and Aidermen Nutting and Candler and others were making a vig orous fight for some of the more Im portant features of the report. The report was taken from the table on the motion of Aiderman Johnson, and adopted with the exception of the ten yea r qualification Aiderman Maddox made a motion that the ten-year qualification be re duced to five years, and that the sal ary of the chief of construction he raised from $4,000 to $6,000. This was lost. Several times statements were made that Aiderman Candler was the author of the ordinance which provides for the present organization of the chief of construction department. Aiderman Candler said he drew the original or dinance. but that it was emaciated be fore it was finally adopted by the council. He said he wanted a ten year qualification for the chief of con struction, but that the council instead of the people should elect him. and that the council should have the authority (o go anywhere in the United States to employ its engineer. FOOD INSPECTOR FOR LA GRANGE LA GRANGE, GA., Sept. 4.—ln pur suance to the pollcv of general sanita tion outlined by the local board of health, composed of W. 8. Davis, C L Christo- Über and Dr. H. W. Terrell, the city coun cil has employed Dr D. O. Browning, of Montgomery. Ala . to be sanitary and food inspector for this city. 3