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I. H. WELCOMES
SEN. CUMMINS
IO MOO SERS
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 I
here today. Colonel Roosevelt welcomed j
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 I
points.” raid the c lonel. He referred |
to the senator’s 5 tenient that he be
lieved in all the . ... iples espoused by I
th? Progressives, raying:
"In Lincoln’s day, when he broke,
away from the VV’.iigu. there were some I
who did not believe in all the Repub- '
hi tn party stood for and it is the same
vav today. But I don't see how any
tr..n < an differ with us on the principle
of Thou shall not steal.'” The crowd
clr ; red.
■''he colonel pr weeded:
I 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 permanent move,"
the tolone! explained, referring to Cum
mins' expressed opinion. "Well. T do.
v hether I am right or w ong, it ought
io make no difference in the attitude
of the Pt ogres rives in this election.
The old parties n e rotten to the core I
Now. let any man come with us this *
fall and I won't quarrel about his go
in? back to the old parties in the fu-
c. One ith us, they’ll like our
company and stay with us.”
Finds Movement Popular.
Vfter :irst hand observation of condi- I
ti >. in Missouri and lowa, th*' colonel |
has told his lieutenants here that it is >
nei.-sary to name Progressive tickets!
In th states. His speeches have taken
on something of the tang of those de
livered in Vermont, where he demanded
“itppn t for the P-ogressive state can
did: t< s as well .ts for himself at the
fi . election.
The colonel’s lowa itinerary today j
includes Mount Zion. Elden. Ottumwa. I
Oskaloosa and Des Moines.
The colonel is pleased with the out
■jok >.n the Middle West.
There Is plenty of third party sen
timent in the West,” he said. "The
light has just started. By November
me whole country will wake up to the
fart iuai we are to be reckoned with
at Hie polls.”
Why Hasnt He Done Something?"
Woodrow Wißon’s stand upon the
tariff, the trusts and the minimum
wage scale proposition was assailed by
Colonel Roosevelt in §t. Louis late yes
terday before the Missouri Progressive
state convention.
faking up Governor Wilson's criti
cism of the Progressive policy in re
gard to 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
rears that Mr. Wilson has been gov
ernor of New Jersey, has nothing been
done 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
state convention as to whether it should
name 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 plight to run a
st might Progressive ticket.”
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
"i: rever it is possible to advance?'
I am very glad that Mr. Wilson
should be with us in his heart; but if
,ls party sympathizes with- us in its
heart why didn’t they in their platform
make a program at least remotely re
st mbling ours? Our sympathy for the
program is not only within our hearts;
t is with our heads and our hands
also.
About the Tariff.
'When he comes to the tariff. Mr.
" ilson attempts to quote me, but he
t singularly unsuccessful. He states,
for instance, that I am not concerned
"ith the Interests of the genera! tax
payer, the general public.
"If he would take the trouble to read
what I have said -or to read our plat
f"rm. he would find that the commis
sion principle which we propose, and
t » which he and his party are hostile,
has for one of Its special objects the
'•ireful consideration of the needs of
the general public. We are advocat
ng the commission system which has
been one of the pieces of governmental
and industrial mechanism that have
been so extraordinarily successful in I
building up the great prosperity of the
German empire.
I believe in protection: I believe that
if Mr. Wilson’s free trade policy or
tariff for revenue only policy is in
Rood faith and not merely treated as a
campaign cry, widespread disaster w ill
result to American life.
"But I don’t believe for a minute
’hat •> protective tariff by itself offers
■ti any way or shape the solution for j
he economic and social injustice !
gainst which we Progressives are
striving.
"Let Mr. Wilson study what has hap-
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PROPERTY OWNERS OF
MACON’S FASHIONABLE
HINES TERRACE IN ROW
MACON. GA.. Sept. 4 - -Over a mat
ter of six inches tht 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, hut
say it must be six inches lower than
the east aiders want.
Two petitions have been filed with
city council, and no matter what action
that body takes the affair is going to
the courts for settlement. The west
side residents and the 'ast side resi
dents have each organized ami 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 la c i forty years.
During that forty years England has
been under a free trade system and
Germany has adoped a high tariff
system. During that forty years the
conditions of the labor world have
grown worse in England and better in
Germany. Germany has advanced
relatively to England ail 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 are
only advocating' what we are sure can
be done and ought to. be done. Evi
dently Mr." Wilson has not studied the
"onditions about the labor of wom< n
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 he
stands by the great Democratic think
ers who have made the Democratic
platform on inis subject.
Mr. Wilson Ims been governor of
New Jersey for nearly two years. It'
the Baltimore platform really offers
any' hope for the trust solution, why
during these two years has nothing
been done by New Jersey tinder Mr.
Wilson's lead for regulation of the
trusts'.’
"The answer is because the states
by themselves can not get at the diffi
culty and it is pure torylsm 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 trust.
“Mr. Witson seems to forget that
part of our 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 Mr. Wilson says, because
they have 'this tremendous authority
behind them,' may oppress th" wage
workers.
"We have a genuin const uctive
policy. Mr. Wilson’s plan, as far as I
can gather, is merely tn 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 tan become more titan protesta
tions. We must supplement the anti
trust law i. the kind of real and
efficient governmental control advo
cated in tin Progressive national plat
form or we will not have made one
step toward solving the trust ques
tion.”
THE ATLANTA GEORG JAA AND NEWS WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 4. 1912.
Grudge Goodsinsky, one o f the scouts, showing little Ruby
Tarpley some of the sights of the cam;).
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Up and Down Peachtree
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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 hi . e been
calling us slaves to fashion for io these
many years. And now look at me, ob
serve my coolness and then feel of the
rag around your 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 iid. •
“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. That
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 it
weighs a tun. And that stiff collar you
started with! That’s a nice thing to
strangle yourself with in wwather like
this. And those soft ones are ever
worse, for they sti- k tighter.
"Without going into particulars. IT
bet an ice cream soda my things don’t
weight a third as much as yours. Ob
serve the wide hat which shields my
face from the sun. Set the ventilated
waist which admits the passing breeze.
Notice the thin fabric of my' skirt. See
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
take that soda now.”
How Hot Is It Up
And Down Peachtree?
"I wish 1 knew how hat it was—
or is,” said the rotund drummer, run
ning a well-soaked handkerchief around
his dripping brow and tu' king 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.
"I 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. I got
cooler right away, but when J noticed
it was hanging against a soda fountain
full of ice I got all heated up again
"Two doors down the street 1 saw
another weather tester and took a peel;
at It. It registered 122, and it jumped
u degree while 1 watched it. But it
i was screwed to a brick w all which had
been soaking sunshine all day.
"Then I got mad and went on a hunt
for the teal tiling. I found thermome
ters indoors which ran all the way
from 84 to 98, with no apparent reason I
for the difference. 1 asked a salesman I
to show me a lot of thermometers un- I
der the pretense of buy ing one and they I
had as many different opinions as a
third-party convention. I don't know
how I'm going to get 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 darn how hot
it is on top of the Empire building. I I
can't sell goods up there. I want to I
know how hot it is up and down |
Peachtree."
And he moved toward a. soda four,- j
tain, carefully hugging the wall to keep;
in the ribbon of shade.
Cnllud Taste in
Hats and Shoes.
"No. a foui -dollar hat’s a little too |
high for my shape." said the customei
in Hit haberdashei’y. "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, walked
up to the counter, picked out a four
dollar fall hat. paid over the coin and
walk'd out, stepping high.
"Well, what do you think of that?”
remarked the white customer. “How
much does that negro earn?”
"Perhaps $8 or 810 a week,” said the
salesman. “But that's got notiiing 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. Anil 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 tine hats and shoes
being ruined 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 h, r- the w eek
of October 7 the letter being from G
W. Firor, secretary of tiic extension
work of the college. A prompt and
cordial acceptance of the offer has been
forwarded to him.
Keep Alert Guard at Night, as
Scout Master Learns to
His Pain.
A lot of city youngsters are back
in town today with a knowledge of
how to cook and "keep house” that
may solve the cost of living problem
in many Atlanta households.
They are members of Boy Scout
j Loop No. ”, who camped out at Lake
j wood for three days, ’preparing their
| own food, making their own beds and
| doing all thg “fixing up” and at the
same time keeping strict military dis
cipline under Scout Master Frank P.
Ma rgolin.
They demonstrated their alertness
one dark night in very striking man
' ne Lou Joel was on guard and the
j scout master decided to see if he was
| keeping his eyes open. He crawled up
• on him through the woods and was sud
denly ordered to-halt. He crawled on.
I I lie order to halt came twice more and
! then the scout master felt the thud of
i a Isoy Scout club across his head and
i he lias the bump today.
Mr. Margolin said today that Lake
wood was badly far enough from the
city for the most effective results, and
'hat. next year a spot further from the
city would be chosen for a three weeks’
stay. The troop will hike to Marietta
I hanksgiving day, having learned how
to walk on tramps taken from Lake
w nod.
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 church
Thursday for home-coming and reunion
services.
A special song service will be held
and talks on the history of the church
will be made by various officials from
from tile different departments. The
members which the church recently
lias 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 Walter, 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 u<> the canoeists.
Z<‘ke Carnes, the eook
SHERIFF SEARCHES
CONGREGATION FOR
TOTERS OF PISTOLS
ROME, GA.. Sept. 4.—The singing
and praying of a congregation of ne
groes did not awe 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 the prisoner, the sheriff
searched every worshiper In the
church to see if any one else there
carried a gun. The prisoner was has
tened away, when the search was com
pleted, and the services continued.
COUNTY SEAT FIGHT IN
MURRAY GROWS WARM
DALTON, GA„ Sept. 4 —The three
cornered fight over what town shall be
the county seat of Murray grows
warmer daily. Eton, Chatsworth and
Spring Place 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 tßelr advertising
in The Citizen, paying for 1,500 sub
scriptions In Murray county. The pa
per will be sent Into practically every
home 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 w’hen
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 ahe 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.
PAPERHANSR’ssfRIKE
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 difTcrcncis between them and
their employers are adjusted there will
be very little wall paper pasted up in
M icon. The paper hangers want a
higher wage scale, and their employ
ers refuse to giant it. Every paper
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.- It cost Steph
en Nolan, a well-known Macon man.
the sum of $17.75 to t ike a bath. He
paid th* Turkish bath proprietor 7.,
cents and then he jumped into a tul
When h» j emerged he found that his
coat had vanished. It contained th<
sl7. Coincidently n negro boothlack .
also disappeared, and he has not been |
taken yet.
council 10 OWE
CMEOFWK
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 citv
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 haxi 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 la elected by the people
and is Independent of the council tn so
far as ho chooses, except that the coun
cil controls the appropriations.
Under the new plan, the council Hhs
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
discharge them. But the chief of con
sfTtibtlon is still to be eleoeted by the
people.
The new ptatn goes trrto effect on
January 1.
Ten-Year Clause Stay*.
A majority of the council voted
against eliminating the quaJlflcation
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 as 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 was 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 tn charge of the detail
ed affairs of the office and an en
gineer In charge of streets and an ■ r
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 know ledge 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 feyv 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 Hs com
mittee have not touched upon.
When the report of the ooonctl'i
committee was brought up yvertenflay
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” clausa
Bed by Councilman Hatcher, a vig
orous fight was begun in wirfch the
city’s street Improvement system was
clearly sidetracked for a time, and a
discussion of personalities was begun.
He sought to make it 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 motion 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 wdre 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 marie
that Aiderman Candler was the author
of the ordinance which provides for the
present organization of the chief >t
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 eon
struction, but. that the council instead
of the people should elect him, and that
the council should have the authority
to go anywhe <• in the United States
to employ its engineer.
FOOD INSPECTOR FOR LA GRANGE.
1..\ i IRAN'IK. Sept. 4. In pur-
suance to the poll* \ of general sanita
tion outlined by the local board of health,
compost d of \\ S. Davis. U. I* Christo
ph, : ami I>; 11. \\ . Terrelt, the city conn
• i) has employed I >r. D. <>. Browning, of
Montgomery. Ala to be sanitary and food
Inspector for this city.
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