u. treaty with
KIA TO END
WEDNESDAY
Barring American Jews From
Czar's Domain Terminates
80-Year Agreement.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.—Next Wed- )
n , .. .iny. January 1, 1913, marks the day j
oi which the treaty between Russia )
and the United States wijl be abro- ,
This international agreement between I
,zar and Uncle. Sam was entered i
hit.' in 1832 and was terminated be
, -.use of Russia's refusal to grant pass- i
ports to American citizens who were of
tlir Jewish race.
While the relations between these j
icountries have been of a very’
, r ,lial nature, in a diplomatic sense,)
piattcis began to grow acute when end- 1
I-. pt American citizens of Hebrew lin- '
, p. >■ .-re subjected to the humiliation |
of icing denied entrance into Russia,
f .1\ because of their religion. It is
iderstood forces utre at work for tite
.rmution of a new treaty.
'flic!' had been some desultory ugi- j
tai ion in regard to this matter from ,
t.pi- to time, but it came to a head :
1 i 'tiiuiner when Oscar Straus, for- ■
. ' minister to Constantinople and re- :
~ , tly a candidate for governor of New j
\ oriand Jacob Schiff, a New York
i, anker, applied to the Russian gov- |
irnment for passports as American cit- I
/.e:ts and were refused.
This hampering of two eminent :
American citizens, whom this country
ltd frequently honored, precipitated I
o. agitation which culminated in the)
i lion taken by congress abrogating I
tlie treaty. Steps have been taken, I
however, to continue friendly relations .
between the two countries.
Treaty a Marvel.
This alliance was one of the diplo
ui.tie marvels of the age. Here was :
a country which represented the last |
< ord in autocratic tyranny assuming I
and maintaining a most cordial atti
tude toward a republic and a democ
tties which was fairly set out upon a
mission to cast down those political
ideals which the former country was
making its chief object to maintain.
Notwithstanding this. Russia has al- )
vuys been ranged on the side of the
i'nited States in every international
issue involving the welfare of this gov
ernment.
At the time the question of abrogat- ■
ing tlie treaty was up before congress. I
President Taft pointed out that the I
treaty was old and antiquated and that i
v. Idle its provisions had been violated )
in tlie matter of th> American Jews, i
there were also other important ques
tions that had arisen since tlie ratifi- i
■ >iion of the treaty, which were not
covered by it.
It was William Sulzer, i emoeratic
covornor-elect of the state of New
York, who initiated the fight on the
■ aty in the house of represent.:tives.
As chairman of the committee on for
' fen affairs, lie arose and, burning with i
ndignatlon, called tlie attention of)
Hie house to the gross violation of the,
or ient pact ano demanded its abroga- (
i ion.
Sulzer Pushed Fight.
Introducing a resolution to this es- ■
bi t. Air. Sulzer precipitated a tight in
the house which lasted several days.
Some members were disposed to look
upon Russia's discriminatory tactics
iltli indifference, but before the debate
• io progressed many days the temper
of tlie American people made itself
• ' It in so palpable a manner that con
gress voted overwhelmingly to abrogate
the treaty.
This does not mean that diplomatic )
relations between Russia and the ( nit- ;
I'd States are indefinitely suspended,
bi fact, they will not be cut off al all ,
in a practical sense. It was but re
' i ntly that President Taft sent a mes
sage to the czar congratulating him
upon his birthday and that ruler re
plied in terms of warm cordiality.
The treaty of 1832 was effected by
■lames Buchanan, who was then minis
ter at St. Petersburg, and fount Nessel
rode. Russian minister of foreign af
drs. At that time no mention was
■ uid" by either government of personal
’ghts independent of commercial
ights, and it was this very technical- |
by which resulted in its abrogation |
"Ighty years later.
At tlie time the treaty was made it .
.'as looked upon as a shrewd diplomat- i
■ victory for Buchanan and he was ;
recipient of numerous congratlila-
Hons. Tlie terms of the treaty were
' onsidered to be broad, although the
thought of both countries was, doubt
iess, that it related to commercial af
fairs only.
Southerner Barred First.
The first case of record in which an
American Jew a as denied passport Into
Russia was in 1852, when the Russian
government refused to vise the pass
port of A. Dudley Mann, who was aft- ,
'■rward assistant secretary of state and
envoy to Brussels from the Southern
' "iifederacy during the Civil war.
Mr. Mann complained to Secretary of
■State Everett that the first article of
die treaty had been violated. But that
■statesman did not concur in his view
of it. He said the treaty covered com
mercial relations only and called
•Mann’s attention to the stipulation that
the inhabitants of the two states should
have the same protection and security
as natives of the country wherein they
reside ''on condition of their submit
ting to the laws and ordinances there
prevailing, and jiartieularly to the reg
ulations in force concerning commerce
and that the right of sojourn and res
idence must have reference to that
subject.
Chasing Greased Pig Is Thriller of Athletic Meet at Fort
SOLDIERS compete in field sports
Op "'A
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Third Battalion Wins Prize for
Butts Manual Gur Drill.
Dashes Thrilling.
I Soldiers of the Seventeenth regi
| inent at Fort McPherson are still talking
j of their field day snorts and trying to
i make bets that the men of tiie Seven-
I teenth can "clean up" with the Elev-
I enth cavalry or any other bunch if an
i Inter-regiment meet can be pulled off.
There were some sports on the Mc
i Pherson parade ground, in spite of the
> chilly breeze. Private Ferguson, of G
company, carried off the real prize of i
the- day when he ran down the greased I
pig, clasped the squealing trophy tri
umphantly to his breast and hurried to
the kitchen. But there were others al
most as greasy as Private Ferguson,
even if they didn't have the sticking
power.
The Third battalion pulled down the
prize for the Butts manual drill, which
i consists in handling an army rifle in
■ the most approved manner. The Sec
‘ ond battalion was next, and the First
was last, according to the report.
Private Clark, of Company D, won
the 100-yard dash in 111-2 seconds,
with Sergeant Naughton, of M, second,
and Private Quigley, of D, a close third.
Private Richards, of Company K, won
' the 220-yard sprint in 25 seconds flat.
I with Mulhearn, of Company E. and
I Wolitsky, of M, second and third.
I Privates Strohmeyer and Monkie
i wicz, of Company B, put it all over
i Privates Doherty ami Mayfield, of Com
| pany E. in the human wheelbarrow
race, Longerbeam, of Com
pany L, had an easy time in the slow
mule event.
The sack race was won by Scharf, of
Company F, with Kee, of F, and Ross,
of I, second and third. The hand cart
wheel race was won by Miller, of D,
with Mahoney, of M. second, and Brad
bury. of L, third. Company E carried
off tli< prize~for the lockstep broom
I raw.
RELATIVES DIVIDE
ESTATE OF SUICIDE
AND WIFE HE SLEW
COLUMBUS. GA.. Dee. 28.—Through
an agreement reached by attorneys rep
resenting tile parties interested, the
Robarts will contest vase was brought
to a close yesterday when Ordinary
Wfliiarn Redd signed an ordei allowing
attorneys representing Mrs. < . M. liar
low to set up a will to her sister’s prop
el ty.
Last August Mrs. Blanche Robarts.
sister of Mrs. Barlow, was shot ami
killed by her husband, who also shot
i himself, dying later from the wound.
I Just before Mrs. Robarts died, she made
ja yerba will, In which she gave her
property to her sister, Mrs. Barlow.
Mrs Barlow, through her attorneys,
undertook to set up this will, which
was-contested by members of the Rob
arts family.
The agreement leached between the
contesting factions gives Mrs. Barlow
a house and lot and automobile which
belonged to her sister, valued at SB,OOO,
: while the insurance on the life of A. M. I
i Robarts goes to the Robarts heirs. It
amounted to $4,500.
SODA WATER BOY. HEIR TO
$5,000. STICKS TO HIS JOB
JACKSON. TENN.. Dec. 30.—Walter
Key, working In a local drug store as
a soda dispenser, has been notified that
tie is heir to $5,000, which was left to
him by his grandfather, W. D. Davis,
who died at Benoit, Miss., two years
ago.
Key, who is only 21 years of age, ran
away from his home in Jackson. Miss.,
a number of years ago and was located
after considerable inquiry. He Is ap
parently unchanged by Id- good for
tune. declaring that he will continue
to dispense soda.
TITE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. MONDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1912
Private. Ferguson, of Company C. with the greased pig
which failed to elude his grasp although it got tiwa.v from his
competitors.
Rockefeller and Morgen Buccaneer s Progeny
KNOW YOUR ANCESTORS?
SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 30. —Down at
Carniel-by-the-Sea. Dr. David Starr
Jordan is preparing a bomb .-hell in the '
shape of a little book that is expected ■
to blast in the world’s opinion of itself. I
Dr. Jordan is, among other things, I
president of the Eugenics commission '
of the American Readers association I
and his essay will be ostensibly written ■
for them.
Equipped with tones and charts and
aided by the most expert genealogist on
the Pacific coast, Dr. Jordan has traced I
about 1,000 American families, repre- |
senting several million of us. back
through our ancestry. I
Dr. Jordan has reached these find
ings:
1. At least half of the citizens in this
country of English ancestry are de
scendants of one “supe’-woman” and
members of one colossal family.
2. Isabelle De Vermandois, daughter
of a crusader and wife of the Duke of
Warren, living In the twelfth century, is
the common progenitor of the teaming
millions whom Dr. Jo dan stamps as
the "fittest of the English speaking
race."
3. John D. Rockefeller and J. P. Mor-
and their millions of “poor rela
tions” will now be able to prove it.
•1 Rockefeller and Morgan have an
cestral lines which also run back to
that of Prince of Buccaneers. Sir Fran
cis Drake.
5. Washington. Jefferson, Lincoln, the
two Harrisons, Cleveland and Roosevelt
are shown to be “quite definitely re
lated."
(>. President Emeritus Charles W.
Eliot, of Harvard, and President Nich-
BEN HILL YOUTH GETS
PRIZE FOR BEST ACRE
OF CORN IN FULTON
Euris W.illaee, of Ben Hili, Fulton
I county, today is the proud possessor of
a pure-bred Berkshire boar, valued at
$25, which lias been given to him by
the Central of Georgia railroad for
having grown the best acre of corn
in Fulton county this year.
Young Wallace is a member of the
Fulton County Boys Corn club. His
best yield, as evidenced at the recent
corn show at the capital, was 83 bush
els from a single acre.
In addition to receiving the fine boar
offered by the Central of Georgia rail
road to the winner in Fulton county,
he also received the prize of the Fulton
County Boys Corn club.
Wallace was given his choice be
tween the Berkshire boar and a short
course at the date College of Agricul
ture at Athens, during January, as the
prize of the railroad. He won the third
highest state prize •
•SOME INGREDIENTS •
IN JORDAN’S BOMB:
• •
’ • David Starr Jordan has discov- •
• ered: •
• Rockefeller and Morgan are de- •
! • scendants of Sir Francis Drake, •
j • prince of buccaneers. •
• Washington, Jefferson. Lincoln, •
■ • the two Harrisons, Cleveland and •
• Roosevelt are related. •
; • Dr. Charles W. Eliot, Nicholas •
j • Murray Butler. the Timothy •
• Dwights and himself are of com- •
• mon ancestry. •
• All of the millions of descend- •
• ants of Isabella Vermando, da ugh- •
• ter of the Crusader, are the fittest •
• of the English-speaking race. •
. | • •
••••••••••••••••••••••••a*
Jolas Mm ray Butler, of Columbia, the
; two Timothy Dwights and Woolsey, of
Yale, and Dr. Jordan himself happen to
fall into a college president trust, due
to their common ancestor.
7. Practically any family which can
trace its line back to Isabella Vernando
Is mentally and physically sound and
its progeny stand a more than usual
chance to inherp the earth
8. The mating of Mother Isabella’s
progeny is a st“p toward the ideal of
■ eugenics.
9. True love, with the initiative of
the individuals tempered by an under
standing of eugenics, is far and away a
better method of bringing about this
• selective ideal than a resort to state
regulation or parental interference.
TURKEY FAMINE IN
WAKE OF CHRISTMAS;
NOT A WAIL HEARD!
Here at the fag end of the holiday
season, when it doesn't really matter
except to epicureans, turkeys are get
ting beyond the financial reach of many
Atlanta people. Saturday evening a
1 high point in the flight was reached,
and Sunday several of the restaurant
men, who did not Include turkey in their
1 bills of fare gave as the reason that
30 cents a pound was too much to pay;
others, that tuikeys were not to be ob
tained for love nor money.
It is a safe" bet that the groanipg
board of Atlanta’s Sunday dinner was
• groaning in most places rather for the
i lack of the holiday bird than with its
weight. “White meat, or dark?” was no
part of the host's ritual yesterday.
t Turkeys are scarce. A turkey famine
• might have been a calamity a month
■ ago. But a present shortage of the
1 supply has failed to arouse a wall of
grief.
Private Leavitt, one of the contestants in the slow mule race.
SEARCHING SIDELIGHTS
ON GEORGIA POLITICS
BY JAMES B. NEVIN.
Secretary of State Phil Cook believes
that Georgia could greatly increase its
revenue from automobiles used within
; . s . s
the state, and at
the same time not
inflict an unwel
come burden upon
automobile o w ti
ers and operators,
by wisely revising
its law as to th
collection of auto
mobile taxes and
their subsequent
disposition.
“Very few auto,
mobilists within
the state now,”
said Secretary
Cook today, dis
cussing this mat
ter, “really pay an
ad valorem tax at
ill. While some of
this loss of Justly due revenue may
arise from pure tax dodging, 1 firmly
believe the greater part of it arises
from ignorance of the tax laws upon
the part of automobile owners.
“Automobile owners come to my of
fice and pay the required $2 license to
operate, and believe that the $2 is all
the tax the state requires of them. As
a matter of fact, automobiles should be
returned to the state' tax receivers for
taxation. Just as any other personal*
property is returned—according to
their honest value.
“In some states, automobile owners
are required to pay the ad valorem tax
at the time the machine is registered—
that is, when it is new, and about Vo he
licensed. In-thls way both the license
and the property tax are collected at
the same time, anil confusion and mis
takes are avoided.
"Where the tax is collected in this
manner, it goes Into a fund kept sepa
rate and distinct from the general state
funds, and is used solely for good roads
purposes— to help out the smaller and
poorer counties in that tine work, for
Instance. Automobile owners, knowing
their taxes are going into such a fund,
are greatly reconciled to their payment.
Many a bridge or causeway erected In
some poor county has made glad the
heart of automobile owners that they
were given an opportunity to partici
pate in a state fund that made such
construction possible.
"The state would not need, under my
plan, a roads commission. All we
would need would be a good engineer,
to work with the various counts au
thorities when necessary, or independ
ently, upon whom would rest responsi
bility for the work taken over under the
special fund.
“That the automobile tax, in its ad
valorem aspect, is not paid in Georgia,
as the law stands today, is attested In
the fact that every county shows from
five to twenty times as many automo
biles registered for license as are re
turned for taxation In one south
Georgia county, for Instance, there have
been 177 automobiles licensed, whereas
, only nine have been returned for taxa
, tlon.
“The next legislature should look into
. tills matter.”
' Tile Washington Post was impressed
j decidedly, It seems, when the reasons
advanced by the Georgia legislature for
LEAVES NEVADA TO
ESCAPE RETURN TO
GEORGIA FOR TRIAL J
SAVANNAH. GA.. Dec. 30—Requi
sition papers sent to Nevada for John
H. Schroder, wanted in Savannah for
child abandonment, will be honored by
the governor of Nevada, but Schrpder
has now left that state, and it will be
necessary to take the matter up with
the governor of California. Schroder
was in Nevada for the purpose of se
curing a divorce at Reno from his Sa
vannah wife.
After his release at Reno, having won
the first tight against his extradition to
Georgia, Schroder immediately left
there, going to a point in California,
where he is said to be now residing.
This course will, of course, tie up tlie
divorce proceedings in Neva/ia. If
Schroder had remained in Reno two
weeks longer and no light was made, he
would have been granted his divorce.
Now the proceedings are hanging fire,
atfd Mrs. Schroder is preparing to fight.
refusing last summer to assent to the
direct-election-of-senators amendment
to the Federal constitution were read
in tiie national house last week.
In commenting editorially upon the
Georgia resolution, The Post said:
The Georgia protest questioning
the validity of the direct elections
amendment, or rather the manner
of its passage through the house,
admittedly is a strong and persua
sive paper, evidently the work of
constitutional lawyers of the High
est caliber. It will be recalled that
while the senate adopted the
amendment by a two-thirds ma
jority of all its members, tiie vote
in the house fell short of that r< -
I quirement of the constitution. But
Speaker Clark, deciding in accord
ance with precedent, declared the
amendment adopted on the ground
that as two-thirds of those in at
tendance voted “aye,” it stood ap
proved. Holding out for a strict
construction of the constitution,
which reads “two-thirds of both
houses shall propose amendments,”
the protestants assert that the
course taken was unconstitutional,
as being in derogation of the right
of the state to conseAt to no
changes in the organic law “except
such as are proposed in strict con
formity to its terms.”
While conceding that the techni
cal point raised by tiie Georgia leg
islature is debatable, the constitu
tional lawyers in congress are in
clined to rest their case on the con
struction handed down by earlier
congresses, holding at tiie same
time that it is up to the several
legislatures to decide.
The resolution returning to congress
the proposed amendment, without ac
tion, and in protest of its manner of
passage by tiie national house, was
drawn by Representative Alexander, of
DeKalb, and was adopted by a unani
mous vote of tiie legislature.
Charles S. Barrett, president of the
great National Farmers union, Is the
only man of record in Georgia history
who has had the signal and unique
honor of being mayor of a lone and iso
lated mountain, minus inhabitants oth
er than squirrels, possums, Jaybirds
and woodpeckers.
Once upon a time, some enterprising
citizens in Mr. Barrett’s then vineyard
of endeavor decided to incorporate a
mountain In the neighborhood, not be
cause It needed Incorporating especial
ly, but because they thought it would
acquire added importance, perhaps as a
summer resort, if it were given a legal
status and a name that might be put
upon the map.
Having decided to confer munici
palityhood upon this lonesome moun
tain. It was necessary, of course, to
provide a mayor for the same; so Bar
rett was legislated Into the Job, de
spite his misgivings and doubts.
There wasn't a house and there
wasn't a cave dweller on the entire
tract Incorporated as a town, and when
Barrett was notified of his mayoralty
honors, he didn’t know what to do
Being then, as now. a wise man in his
generation, he resolved the doubt by
doing nothing. He sat steady In the
boat. He didn't even go to the trouble
to get sworn in; and, as there were no
ARMY MEN PLAN
IN VIEW OF 10
Clash With Great Britain Over
Canal Considered Probable
by Military Leaders.
Atlanta army officials will watch with
more than usual interest the approach
ing trip of Brigadier General Robert K.
Evans. U. S. A., commander of the
Department of the Gulf, to Washington
lor a conference with Secretary of War
Stimson, Major General Leonard Wood,
and others, on plans to reorganize tho
army General Evans leaves January
(1. ami will be in conference with the
army men January 8.
Although the roster of the United
States army shows 87,259 men. this iji
eludes troops now doing service in the
coast artillery, in the Philippines, in
Hawaii, and Panama, who are not
available for immediate service in a
mobile army. Less than 40,000 men ar«
ready for immediate service at anj
given point, and it is the purpose oi '
the army chiefs to increase the number
to a total of 1,000.000. capable of repell
ing any invading foe.
Seek Trained Reserves.
The former term of enlistment was
three years, but the new order makes a
i seven-year term, with three or four
years service and the balance spent in
reserve. Trained soldiers, subject to
recall for service, declare war maker ’,
will be able to uphold the honor of the
country where recruits would fail.
There is deep concern among irmy
men over the Panama canal, and the
impression Is that war with Great Brit- T
aln is inevitable If the United States
finally exempts coastwise American
ships from paying toll; also that tho
country faces extreme humiliation if It
takes a position favoring England and
the other powers.
Army leaders declare that if the
United States insists on the exemption
of American ships, it Is only u question
of time before Great Britain will send
ships and forces down to take the canal.
Ship Exemption Might Bring War.
With four naval vessels to one owned
by the United States government, it is
pointed out. she could do that handily,
land there would be little appeal, either
I through the medium of peace or that of
i war. Which nation will care to tackle
the United States first remains to be
I seen, but it will be the one which Is hit
| the hardest.
Jealousy of Germany by England, and
vice versa, lias heretofore kept America,
safe, but the violation of the Hay-
Pauncefote treaty, if exemption of ships
is a violation, likely will bring on war
with the latter country. And America,
so the wise men say, will be caught en
tirely unprepared.
Plausible congressmen declare that
should England and the United States
go to war, the latter country would
take Canada and also resist success
i fully my invading force, but those who
I look gravely at the situation point to
I similar declarations mid the actual per-
Iformances in the war of 1812, when
American soldiers wen- easily turned
; back from the Canadian border and
England Hus only bested through cir
cumstances beyond her control.
Treaty Is Not Clear.
Eliliu Root, formerly secretary of
war, and the present secretary are un
alterably opposed to exemption from
tolls, and In this position they oppoti-t
President Taft, w ho has fixed tolls fur
all classes of ships, excepting America’)/
vessels engaged in coastwise trade.
The Hay-Pauncefote treaty provides,
among oilier things, th treatment of all
nations' ships alike, and the mooted
question is whether "all tuitions" in
cludes the I’nited States or means “all
other nations.”
This treaty stipi iseded the Clayton-
BuJwer treaty of tlie early '3os. Th:
latter pact, it is said, made it almos
Impossible for the United States ever to
build and maintain a canal like t.i.t
through Panama.
)
inhabitants in tite new town, there Has
nobody in sight for him to swear at.
By and by. a couple of squirrel hunt* I
ers got on a “jag" in that town, ami
Barrett had them ai ri ~ted. He inform
ed them, much to their astonislimen.
that thej were “drunk and disorderly,
also discharging firearms," inside the
city limits—and lie lined them $5 each!
That was his first and last official an
as mayor of Abernathy—the incorpo
rated mountain. Afterward tlie “town"
charter lapsed, and Abernathy became
nothing more than a memory and a
song.
Eormer Speaker John N. Holder Is an
Atlanta visitor today.
Mr. Holder is a "statesman out of .»
job" nowadays, for the first time since
he became 22 years of age. He doesn't
mind, however —indeed, he is one of
the most Chippei- of all the “lame ducks”
that come to Atlanta occasionally.
Mr. Holder made a gallant race for
congress in the November election, but
Thomas M. Hell, the present represen
tative from the Ninth, won out.
It is an open secret in the Ninth,
however, that the former speaker of
the house will make an effort to “come
back” by and by, and there are many
who predict that it yet will be Con
gressman Holder.
"Bud” Blalock, of Fayette county, for
mer representative and senator, and
late aspirant for the agricultural com
missionership, is said to have an eye
out for the office of collector of inter
nal revenue for Georgia, under Presi
dent Wilson.
This fine, fat job. now held by Henry
S.. Jackson, also is said to be the goal
of Judge Newt Morris' ambition, al
though it has been whispered that Mor
ris may be "taken care or' In Washing
ton city.
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