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TTTF. ATLANTA fthORGIAN AND NEWS, Til UR SI) AAA APRIL 17, 191?,.
TOLL VICTORY.
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M i S. J. OTTLEY, prominent society woman of Atlanta,
,vi’o wi'l represent the National Civic Federation at the
Souther,' Sociological Congress here. Mrs. Ottley will deliver
a message, t Iso, from the woman's department of the Federation
Hope of America’s Winning Canal
Dispute Now Rests With the
United States Senate.
Scholar Scoffs, Though, at Dan
ger of War Over California
Legislature’s Action.
By JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES.
WASHINGTON, April 17.—James
Bryce, a discreet and prudent diplo
mat, familiar with ®ur country, and
fresh from the breakfast table of the
White House, assures his British pub
lic that a decision favorable to Eng
land is forthcoming in the issue of
the Panama Canal tolls.
Secretary of State Bryan went out
of his way at the Navy League din
ner last week to slap in the face the
ample-navy spirit of the country, op
posing even his fellow Cabinet officer.
Secretary Daniels, to say that he
would never be in favor of a large
navy unless the country was invaded,
as if in elemental common sense there
would be time then to build a navy
for defense.
Now, the President himself has
chosen, out of all the list, ay counsel
for the State Department, John Bas
sett Moore, whose hobby and expert
equipment has always been set to ar
bitration as the solution of interna
tional difficulties.
Gives Nations New Spirit.
Up to the moment of President Wil
son's conference with Ambassador
Bryce the Panama question had set
tled down apparently into a general
acceptance by all parties. It was un
derstood that England was making no
further stir in the matter.
This new projection of President
Wilson’s spirit and opinion coming at
the same time with the Increasing
urgency of Japan’s* contention on the
Pacific Slope, it is believed, will give
both England and Japan new spirit in
urging both of their contentions, and
tonic the aggressive attitude of both
nations to\yard the United States.
With Secretary Bryan committed
absolutely to the doctrine, of “peace
at any price" and with Presidem
Wilson committed almost without res
ervation to the equally timid policy of
arbitration, the final decisions must
rest with the Senate.
Senate Already on Record.
The Senate, which has been sturdily
American before Mr. Wilson came
Into this matter, has already voted by
a two-thirds majority against charg
ing tolls for our domestic vessels in
the canal and against arbitrating this
matter of domestic rights with Eng
land.
There are no indications that the
Senate will lie down at the President’s
feet and let him walk over them.
There are strong men in that body.
They represent great States. They
have seen much service In public life.
They have debated this great question
fully. They have registered an honest
American conviction upon it. And it
is scarcely possible that Jnmes (b’Gor-
man, chairman of the committee, and
other American Senators will make
obeisance to this new-found royalty
of President Wilson, the arbitrator,
and of William Jennings Bryan-for-
peace-at-any-price.
We shall see the temper and indi
viduality of the Senate.
Kenjiro Sato. Japanese of high
degree, college graduate, newspaper
waiter and. incidentally, butler t«•
Governor-elect John M. Slaton, *v-
day discussed interestingly and for-
•ibly California's plan to deprive
Japanese of the right to hold land.
He said the California Legislature
was distinctly un- Christian, but
scoffed at the idea the proposed ac
tion would precipitate war.
"The attempt to discriminate
against the Japanese "in California is
unjust. People of all countries should
be treated alike. If the California
anti-alien land bill becomes a law.
the Japanese Government -may reta 1
iate by forbidding Americans and
Europeans to own land in Japan,"
said Sato, who is a Japanese noble
man.
“The Japanese have gone into Cali
fornia, and have gone into the waste
places, tilling land that heretofore
has been, valueless. They have de
veloped the land to a point when
is fertile and is valuable, and now
the big land owners want it. They
have caused this bill to be framed.
Japanese Peaceful People.
“Is it right to give citizenship to
negroes and other races and refuse
it to the Japanese? The question of |
whether the Japanese are to be given j
the privileges of citizenship in the
United States is a big question in
Japan to-day. California says the
Japanese are a danger to the nation.
But we are not. We are a peaceful
people and all we want to do is what
is right.”
Mr. Sato hoots the idea that the i
California situation may become . so j
acute as to bring on war between !
America and Japan.
“1 bet my life, ” was the emphatic
way he put it, “that there yvi\\ be noJ
war between my country and yours. ;
Sc to Writes Views.
Mr. Salr is part owner of The Jap- 1
anese American, published in San
Francisco, and under the pen name of
C. Yamanaka, is a regular contribu
tor to its editorial and special arti
cle columns. The late issues of his
paper have been filled with articles
on the land bill.
Mr. Sato was graduated- in medicine
from Columbia University,’ New York,
several years ago.. He says he is
“butlering” for the Govern or-elect of
Georgia because he needs the money.
Some day he hopes to return to his
own country to practice his profes
sion. He ..is of the Samurai, and in
Japan is of noble blood.
SALARIES HIGHER, MORE
APPLY FOR POSTAL JOBS
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The Sunday American goes every
where all over the South. If you have
anything to sell The Sunday Amer
ican is "The Market Place of the
South.” The Sunday American is the
best advertising medium.
With many applicants to take the
civil service examinations for post-
office clerks and carriers on May 10,
the postal authorities are confident
that the efficiency of the department
will be increased by the opportunity
to employ better men.
The increase in the number of ap
plicants is due, postal officials say, to
the new law raising the salaries of
the clerks and carriers, for the first
year, from $600 to $800. This law
goes into effiect July 1.
WILBURN AND MRS. KING
TO FACE TRIAL APRIL 24TH
MACON, GA.. April 17.—Alterneys
McNeil and Cooper, who represent
Mrs. Kate King and Nick Wilburn,
have been advised by Solicitor J. E.
Pottle, of the Jones County Superior
Court, that the trial of the two de
fendants, charged with the murder of
the woman’s husband, will probably
be n signed for Thursday, April 24.
He will not decide definitely, however,
until after the return of the indict
ments by the Grand Jury at Grays on
Monday
i. OTTLEY
Federation, in Resolution, Re
sents Strike Order of ‘His Royal
Highness,’ Jos. M. Brown.
“Whereas the first amendment
to the Constitution of the United
States provides that even Con
gress shall not abridge the free
dom of speech and the press, but
His Royal Highness, Joseph M.
Brown, Governor of the State of
Georgia, deems he is mightier
even than the Constitution, for in
his proclamation of September 2,
1912, declaring Augusta in a state
of rebellion, great stress was laid
on the clause prohibiting the
criticism of the military officers
and His Majesty the Governor,
Therefore be it resolved, That
the Georgia Federation of Labor,
now in session, does hereby con
demn the action of Joseph M.
Brown for the usurpation of
power which was not his.”—RES
OLUTION ADOPTED TO-DAY
BY THE STATE FEDERATION
OF LABOR.
AUGUSTA, GA.. April 17.—Govern
or Joseph M. Brown to-day was con
demned by the Georgia Federation of
Labor in a bitter resolution for iiis
ittitude toward labor last fall in call
ing out the State militia during the
Augusta street car strike, when he
issued a proclamation declaring Au
gusta in a state of rebellion. Char
acterizing the Governor as “His Roy
al Highness" and “His Majesty,” the
resolution charges him with “usurpa
tion of power that was not his,” and
declares he ‘‘deems he is mightier
even than the Constitution."
The action of the federation in
adopting the resolution followed the
attacks made on the Governor yes
terday by Leon F. Marquardt and Je
rome Jones, of Atlanta.
An amendment to the federation
constitution, offered by the Llthonia
Stone Cutters' Union, that no officer
of the State Federation be allowed to
hold public office or office with any
public corporation, wap tabled. It is
said that the amendment was aimed
nt President S. B. Marks, w ho holds
a public office in Atlanta. The point
of order was made that to pas« such
an amendment would be to violate
the charter granted to the Georgia
Federation by the American Federa
tion of Labor.
The federation passed a resolution
asking the legislative committee to go
before the State Legislature next
summer and try to get a law enacted
forcing the railroads to put derail
ing switches on spur tracks as a pre
ventive of accidents.
Judge Emory Speer addressed the
federation at the close of the morn
ing’s business' session.
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In The Sunday American
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American Now
LONDON, April 17.—Gustave F
Wolff, one of the founders of the
great shipbuilding firm of Harland &
Wolff it Belfast, died here to-day,
aged 7H.
Captain Scott's Aide at Naples.
NAPLES, April 17.—t’ommantWt E.
G. E. Evans, R. N., a member of the
Antarctic expedition of Captain Rob
ert F. Scott, arrived here to-day, ac
companied by his wife, who is crit
ically ill.
Chinese and Mongols Clash.
PEKIN, April 17. Many skirmishes
between Chinese and Mongols in
Southern Mongolia are reported. Two
thousand Mongols attacked and de
feated four Chinese regiments sta
tioned at the Tahuangriao Temple in
Silinghol.
France to Make Apology.
PARIS, April 17.—An apology from
the French Government to Germany
probably will put an end to the “Nan y
incident,” it was authoritatively re
ported to-day. and placate the feel
ings of Germans who were enraged hi
insults given to German tourists in
Nancy recently by a party of French
students.
Mississippi Asks
Votes for Women
State Suffrage Association Also Goes
on Record for Other Legal
Reforms.
JACKSON, MISS., A phi 17. To
day the Mississippi Woman Suf
frage A>soeiaiion adopted a resolu
tion advocating votes for women and
legislation in Mississippi to raise the
age of consent for girls from 12 to 18
years; to attempt to secure legisla
tion making women eligible as trus
tees of all eleemosynary institutions;
to urge the Legislature to make
women eligible for school trustees
and county superintendents of edu
cation.
The resolution begins by declaring
that women should not be discrimi
nated against in the matter of suf
frage because .of their sex, and
"therefore we shall ask that the word
male be stricken out of the Constitu
tion defining the qualifications of the
voter."
The election of officers will take
place this afternoon, when the con
vention will adjourn
GIRL ATHLETES TO
GIVE. FOLK DANCES
Y. W, C. A. “Gym" Classes Have
Been Drilled for Months in
Steps and Poses.
Atlanta Society Woman Will Ex
plain Civic Work at Southern
Congress Here.
Kansas Girls Fix an
Ideal Male Standard
He Need Not Be Handsome But
He Must Make a Good
Appearance.
Mrs. J. K. Ottley, one of Atlanta’s
most prominent society and club
women, will be among those to ad
dress the Southern Sociological con
gress in its convention here April 25
to 29. Mrs. Ottley is now' engaged
in preparing a message which she
will carry to the convention from *he
National Civic Federation and the
woman’s department of the same
organization.
Owing to the Inability of President
Seth Low, of the National Civic Fed
eration, and Miss Maude Wet more,
president of the*woman’s department,
to attend the congress, Mrs. Ottl?y
lias been asked to carry a joint mes
sage frqm both organizations. Club
women see in the fact that Mrs. Ott
ley has been chosen to represent
jointly two such noted national or
ganizations an undoubted compliment
to her genius and ability.
Mrs. Ottley will point out the mag
nitude of the National Civic Federa
tion and its woman’s department, and
point to the path it expects to follow
for greater accomplishments.
Mrs. Ottley is enthusiastic over the
approaching gathering. Rhe says she
believes Atlanta will have between
1,000 to 1.500 delegates as guests dur
ing the congress.
HEAD OF R. R. ENJOINED
FROM ACCESS TO BOOKS
PENSACOLA. FLA.. April 17.
Judge William B. Sheppard, in United
States Court, to-day granted a tem
porary restraining order against Hen
ry McLaughlin, president of the Pen-
acola, Mobile and New Orleans Rail
road. denying McLaughlin access to
the books of the company. The bill
Was filed by heirs of David Davis, who
who claims he owned a one-third In
terest in the road. The petitioners also
ask that a receiver be appointed.
The hearing begins next Monday.
In the meantime the temporary in
junction is in effect.
SENATOR SAYS PRESS OF
U. S. IS OF LOW STANDARD
TOPEKA, April 17.—College gins
in Kansas have fixed the standard
for the “ideal” young man. the possi
ble husband. Throughout the State
in the Young Women’s Christian As
sociation buildings the requirements
are posted. He must be five feet ele
ven inches tall and weigh 159 pounds.
Otherwise he must:
Make a good apearance, but need
not be handsome.
Be a good conversationalist, but not
a flatterer.
Revere and respect the aged.
Not smoke, drink or be guilty of at
tendant evils.
Not sneer at religion or joke lightly
of it.
Not recognize a different standard
for men and women.
Accident Delays
Trans-Ocean Flyer
Great Dirigible Found Deflated as
American Was Ready to Start
From Canary Islands.
Preny devotees of Terpsichore—-150
of them—will .take part in an exposi
tion of folk dances fo-morrow night
in the Wesley Memorial gymnasium.
They are members of the Young
Women’s Christian Association “gym’
classes who have been drilled for
weeks and months in the steps they
will reproduce to-morrow night.
The program will have as its finale
the brilliant' Hungarian dance, ih
which" all of the class in costume will
participate. The Russian Court dance
and the English Harvester dance are
among the other numbers.
The "June Bug" Frolic” is promised
to be us merry and eccentric as its
name. In addition to the dances,
there will be Hag drills, children's
drills, Indian club drillfe and many
new and Interesting gymnastic exer
cises
This will be the last of the drills
before next fall. Admittance will be
by tickets, which arc being sold by
the young women to the friends of the
association. The gymnasium work
will not be taken up again until the
passing of the warm weather.
The w ork in the gymnasium .classes
has been greatly above the average
this year, in the judgment of Miss
Era Betzner, physical director* Miss
Betzner is expected .to be in charge
again next year, when, witli a gym
nasium of adequate size and equip
ment. it will be possible to accomplish
even more gratifying results.
Phone Co. Raises Tax
Return to $5,898,217
Increase of More Than $1,000,000
Over First Figures Effected
by Comptroller.
SENATE HEARS OF
MEXICAN THREAT
Americans’ Lives Unsafe, Accord
ing- to Arizona and New
Mexico Members.
WASHINGTON. April 17.—A'arm-
ing reports as to conditions in Mex
ico, especially along the American
border, are receiving the considera
tion of the Senate Committee on For
eign Relatione. Senators Smith, of
Arizona, and Fall, of New Mexico,
have laid the facts before the com
mittee. They are in closer touch with
Mexican affairs than any other mem
bers in the Senate. They stated that
threats have been made against Amot-
icans by Mexican officials.
Despairing of immediate recogni
tion by the United States, various
American interests are said to have
joined with Canadian and English
interests in urging the London Gov
ernment to recognize Mexico without
delay.
Rebels Plan Separate Republic.
EL PASO, TEXAS. April 17.—
Huerta-Diaz Federal soldiers in the
garrison at Chihuahua and Juarez
were bottled up with no chance to es
cape to-day, following the capture by
Constitutionalists of the cities of Pa
ra 1. Jiminez and Santa Rosalia. The
fall of Chjhuahua and Juarez will
give the former adherents of Presi
dent Madero control of the State of
Chihuahua. Plans were under way
to-day for the establishment of a sep
arate republic if the two cities* are
captured. Battles at both places may
be fought in a few days.
Waterworks Chiefs
To Meet in Atlanta
Throuffh a conference to-day be
tween Comptroller General W. A.
Wright and representatives of the
Southern Bell Telephone and Tele
graph Company, the corporation was
induced to raise its tax returns from
$4,631,538, its original declaration, to
$5,898,217.
The first figures were a decrease of
nearly a million dollars from last
year, while the revised returns were
about $250,000 greater than in 1912.
The Pullman Company offered re
turns aggregating $771,578.47, but in
the opinion of the Comptroller Gen
eral this amount was too small, arid
the returns were sent back to the
company to be reviewed.
Delegates From Three States Will
Gather in This City
Next Year.
The Tri-State Water and Light As
sociation has accepted the invitation
of the Atlanta Convention Bureau to
hold its 1914 meeting in Atlanta.
Secretary Fred Houser, of the bu
reau, is iu rc.ceipl of a telegram an
nouncing the decision of the associa
tion, which has just concluded its
convention in Charlotte, N. C.
Asheville. N. C„ and Charleston, S.
C„ put forth strong efforts to land
this convention, but the telegraphic-
invitation from the Atlanta Conven
tion Bureau was accepted by an al
most unanimous vote.
Georgia. North Carolina and South
Carolina are the three States repre
sented in the association.
ADMIRAL SAVES $50,000
IN SCRAPS FROM BRASS
WASHINGTON, April 17.—Sever
al months ago Rear-Admiral Cowie.
Paymaster General of the navy, had
installed in the Brooklyn Navy Yard
an experimental metal smelting plant
Yesterday, a requisition was made
for 300,000 {founds of brass at a cost
of $50,000. Admiral Cowie called up
the smelting plant at the Brooklyn
yard and was informed the order
could be filled.
“Do vou mean to say you have
saved that much brass from the
scraps?”
“Yes, and 100,000 pounds more.”
LAS PALMAS. CANARY ISLANDS,
April 17.—A disastrous mishap to the
dirigible balloon Suchard II has caused
a temporary postponement of the start
of Joseph Bruecker and his two com
panions on their long flight across
the Atlantic Ocean.
When Bruecker reached the aero
drome to-day he found that the gi
gantic gas bag had become deflated
during the night. Investigation
showed the main valve had been
opened, although whether this result
ed from accident or design is not cer
tain.
Work of reinfiating the balloon was
begun at once.
Bruecker’s departure had been fixed
for 4 o’clock this afternoon and
enormous crowds had gathered to see
the final preparations.
COURT RULES STEAM MILL*
CAN BE CONDEMNED
That the granting of an injune-
tion against a power company at
tempting to condemn*land on which
mill property is situated is not lim
ited when the mill is operated by-
steam, was a point determined in f
Supreme Court decision which re
versed Superior Court Judge Jones,
of Habersham.
G. B. Stribling, proprietor of a
small mill in Habersham County-
near Clarksville, sought to enjoin the
Georgia Railway A Power Company
from condemning the site of the mill
property. Judge Jones held he had
no jurisdiction to issue the injunc
tion because the mill was operated
by steam.
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SENATOR CHARGED WITH SCHOOL TAX NOT PAYABLE
BLOCKING AMBULANCE UNTIL PLATS ARE FILED
WASHINGTON, April 17.—That
American journalism in the United
States is of a low- standard, tending
to poison the mind and destroy the
morals of the people and that news
paper reporters live constantly in an
atmosphere of crime and immorality,
was the view of Senator John Dow
ney 'Works, of California, who ad
dressed the Senate to-day on his bill
making it unlawful to publish in the
District of Columbia .details of crime
accidents and tragedies."
WASHINGTON. April 17.—Dr. Ar
thur M. Zlnkhain, of Emergency Hos
pital this city, told the Senate Inves
tigating the conduct of the police on
the day of the ruffragette parade,
that Senator Poindexter, of Washing
ton, Ignored a police badge and held
up an ambulance on Its way to the
hospital and that it was some time
before the Senator desisted in ills
efforts to prevent the ambulance
from crossing the line of parade.
NEGLECT OF COURT REFORM
IS DENOUNCED AS TREASON
CHICAGO, April 17.—“You are
traitors to your country if you do not
do something to change the rotten
procedure in our courts. In the name
of God, do something to bring about
the administration of Justice."
This* statement was made to 200
members of the Chicago Bar Associa
tion by Father Maurice J. Dorney, of
9t. Gabriel’s Church.
If you have anything to sell adver
tise in The Sunday American, Lar
gest circulation of any Sunday news
paper in the 8cuth.
Counties must be properly and le
gally laid off into school districts
and the plats filed with the Ordinary
before school taxes can be collected,
according to a decision ofc the Georgia
Supreme Court made to-nay. ,
R. P. Brown and others, of Bald
win County, sought to obtain an in
junction against K. P. Hawkins, tax
collector, and G. C. MrKinley, presi
dent of the school commissioners, re
straining them from making tax col
lections. They based their plea on
the fact that the school districts had
never been properly laid off nor filed
with the ordinary.
BILL PASSED IN OHIO FOR
STATE AND CITY PRIMARIES 1
COLUMBUS, OHIO, April 17 — Both
Houses of the Ohio Legislature to-day
passed a primary bill to take effect on
January 1. providing for the nomina
tion of candidates to State, county
and municipal officer at primaries in
stead of conventions.
In each presidential year an addi
tlonal primary is tq be held to select,
delegates and alternates to national
party conventions.
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