Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

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- Learning Nature's Secrets City Youngsters Prove Apt Pupils BOY SCOUTS SOLVE THE COST OF LIVING PROBLEM ('fwwOCTßk wife >/ ■ 41 i 4 If - s-» m . \\ ■>\ r a / A\ w> 1 wlMw* Z- ■ A\ Bi Hi - • / --1 j 11 vIK MMfr: - ** u ' " - *1 i I > A, liUi i I i i t\ill t n Ill■rl ni* \ .- rr 1 _ _ Teddy r.ttHtenbauiti, Bugler. 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;). I . Up and Down Peachtree ■ J ■■ I - ' -..- ... I 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. 3