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Copyright, 1913, International News fikrvlre.
Atlanta Expert Declares Neither
Interstate Nor State Commis
sioners Reduced Revenue.
“Railroads, in my opinion, cannot
, consistently claim that the Interstate
Commerce* Commission or the State
railroad Commissions have decreased
their re v enues by lowering rates.
Railroad Commissions have decreased
others have been raised. The rate
per ton per mile for freight has re
mained fairly stable.”
C. M. Candler, of the Georgia Rail
road Commission, one of the best in
formed men in the United States' on
railroad problems, makes this com
ment in connection with the Eastern
railroads’ application for a 5 per cent
increase in rates, which just now is
arousing much controversy and in
terest. as foreshadowing similar ac
tion in other sections of the nation.
“Operating expenses of the rail
roads, however, have increased,” says
Mr. Candler. “Our figures show con
clusively that every item which goes
to make up the expense of operation
has increased steadily with the single
exception of coal, which is about the
same.
“If the railroads want an increase
in freight rates, if it be tru.e as they
claim, that present rates do not per
mit of proper returns on their invest
ment, they should base their demands
square upon the plank of increased
expenses, and fight the thing out
along that line and that alone.
Denies Ruinous Reductions.
• Any claim that commissions have
made ruinous reductions can not be
upheld successfully.
“A layman can understand it read
ily. The Interstate Commerce Com
mission. for example, does not make
rates. It simply takes up rates
against which complaint is made.
“Suppose that an increase is made
on one classification embracing 10,-
000 articles. Shippers will fight only
50 or 00 increases. Even if they win,
the other rates stand. Then, by
changing articles from one classifi
cation to a higher, and by similar ma
nipulation, the railroads manage to
keep their revenues at a stable figure.
“The commission .can regulate in
equalities and remedy discriminations
That is all they can do, and all they
ever have attempted.
“Of course, in Georgia, the situation
is somewhat different. Here railroads
cannot increase rates without our
permission. And if they lower a rate,
that ‘rate' at onde becomes the com
mission's rate, and it cannot bo
changed without a proper hearing.
Try to Make Rates Fair.
“But the Georgia Commission has
made no sweeping reductions. It has
not tried. All that it*ever has tried
to do Is make the rates fair alike to
all localities.”
The railroads . mak«- the .plea, that
in order to return fair profits, and
in order to build up a surplus for
emergencies and for additional equip
ment and improvements’, they must
have a wider margin betwf-*»n
ing expense and revcuraeT
In this connection, the report of the
Georgia Railroad Commission, just
published, gives interesting figures.
The ten trunk lines in Georgia now
pay an average of $29.12 per ton for
steel rails, an increase of four per
cent over 1908. Cross ties have in
creased in cost in the same period
from 34 to 42 cents* apiece; lumber
from $16.02 to $19.41 per M. Loco
motives now cost an average of $19,-
409 against $15,146 in 1908, an increase
of 28 per cent, and passenger coaches
have increased in cost from $6,739
to $9,262; box, coal and flat cars, an
average of 18 per cent.
Of course, rolling stock bought now
adays is better than four years ago.
Htrll it represents increased expense.
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Close Congress Ten
Years, Hill Suggests
Then,^ Railroad
Country Would
President Says, the
See Unprece
dented Prosperity.
ST PAUL. May 5.—Congress should
adjourn and stay adjourned for ten
years in order to better conditions in
the United States, according to James
J. Hill.
Mr. Hill attacked the Congressional
legislation, which, he said, had pre
vented a more gapid influx of immi
gration. Laws that have been passed
recentlj are responsible for the flood
of immigration to the Argentine Re
public, he asserted.
“If he could just tie a bell on each
one of our illustrious statesmen who
is try ing to keep workmen out of this
country and adjourn Congress for ten
years, I believe the country would see
an unprecedented period of prosper
ity,” he said. “Business’ men then
would carry on big undertakings
without fear of legislative interrup
tion.
Jienate Committee to
Fight Wilson's Plans
for Currency Reform
Will Oppose Every Effort to Rush
Through Administration
• Bill.
WASHINGTON, May 5.—The Sen-
ate committee on banking and cur
rency is unalterably opposed to a
number of the features of currency
legislation suggested by President
Wilson and Secretary McAdoo.
The members of the committee are
wide apart on what the law should
be. They say they do not intend to
be coerced or impressed into the
suDport of an Administration bill to
wfnch they cannot give their adher
ence.
Practically the only conclusion
reached was that there should be no
legislation at this session of Con
gress.
A subcommittee consisting of Sen
ators Owen. Hitchcock. Shafroth.
Bristow and Weeks has drafted thirty
inquiries to be addressed to prom 1 -
nent bankers and economists
throughout the country. Here are
some of the questions:
"What are the essential defects of
our banking and currency system?”
"Should a new system include State
as well as national banks?”
"Should there be one central re
serve association or a number, and if
the latter, how many?”
"Should the Aldrich-Vreeland act
be extended after Its expiration in
1914? if so, should it he amended?”
"Should additional currency be per
manent or temporary?”
"Should national banks be required
to keep their reserves in their own
vaults and with their own reserve
association?”
“Should tlie rate on discounts no
the same for all, and should this rat
be published weekly?”
OCCASIONAL
OB3EKMMTON3
Norman B. Ream, one of America’s
biggest capitalists. Is turning
many of his stocks into cash,
Wall Street hears. He is classed
as among the half dozen leading
operators in securities. His for
tune, ’tie said, is running towards
nine figures—that is, $100,000,000.
He keeps rigidly out of the news
papers.
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Even the deep blue sea has a bot
tom. The stock market looks
as if it might be near bedrock.
Not half the things that are
feared will happen. When the
rise begins the bears will And
the temperature uncomfortable.
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At the Economic Club dinner one
speaker remarked that it was a
sad day when St. Paul could not
sell 4% per cent bonds. “Too
true,” remarked Banker Vander-
lip to his table neighbor. Presi
dent Bush, of Missouri Pacific,
later digressed during his speech
to remark: “Talk of 4V» and 5
per cent money, I’d like to find
some at 7 per cent.
There is a glut in the Wall Stre.t
clerical market. Out West there
is a keen demand for farm
laborers.
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“There,” said the New Yorker to hi-
country cousin, visiting the finan
cial district, “is one of the signs
of the times,” as he pointed to
a poor fellow carrying tne sign,
“Loans at 1 per cent on dia
monds, watches and jewelry.”
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An involuntary investor owning
American Beet Sugar wants this
printed: "Beet Sugar beat a good
“Tariff Will Be Blow
to Steel, but I'm Not
Quitting"—Schwab
•Enterprise and Resourcefulness
U. S. Insure Continued Pros
perity,” He Says.
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Experiments at Johns Hopkins
Indicate “Suspended Anima
tion or Latent Life.”
BALTIMORE, May 5.—A third
state between Ilf# and death, a stale
of “latent life” or suspended anima
tion has been suggested by a series
of experiments recently made in the
psychological and historical laborato
ries of the Johns Hopkins Medical
School. These experiments, which
have been under way for a number of
months show, it is believed, a num
ber of steps between life and death.
The layman sees no intervening
state between life and death, but the
investigations made shotv in appar
ently dead organizms, phases of de
pressed vitality so closely resembling
death as to be indistinguishable from
it. Organisms having every appear
ance of being lifeless have neverthe
less again manifested vital character.,
istics.
Bacteria, the lowest organisms,
have enormous powers of resisting
conditions that tend to death. Those
of various diseases have been shown
in the laboratory frozen at the tem
perature of liquid air. or 360 degrees
below zero Fahrenheit. They do not
die as a rule, and often survived and
retained their specific vital pathogen
ic characteristics.
Freezing Suspends Animal Life.
There are instances where such
cold-blooded animals as frogs, snails
and fish have had their lives suspend
ed by freezing, scrtnetiines so thor
oughly that their intestines can be
taken out and yet on being “thawei
out,” after a period of weeks, revive
most actively.
In the warm blooded animals, even
man himself, one does not find such
extreme instances of suppression of
vitality, the experimenters sav, as in
the case of the lower organisms, crea
tures with more sluggish and there
fore less easily deranged metabolism
Hence the theories are not yet appli
cable to human beings.
The interesting inference from ill
these cases of latent life of suspended
animation is that, though vitality
cannot be said to have vanished, yet
the organism during all the time of
latency shows none of the signs of
the possession of vitality. It is not
taking food, oxygen or water: it is
not giving out carbon dioxide or wa
ter or other chemical results of bod
ily activity. It is not moving of rs
own volition; and in the higher ani
mals both the heart and breathing ac
tivities are in abeyance.
No state could be. it is said, more
like death. “Latent life,” not sleep, is
the true imag^ of death. Revivability
is there; therefore, life is depressed,
marked, but not abolished.
Some Successful Experiments.
Recently some very interesting and
successful efforts were made in the
medical school to revive the appar
ently dead heart of an animal, as ex
plained b> Dr. Alexis Carrel, who r
cently lectured before the studen*
body here. In about five cases out
of ten the heart of a living animal,
for example, a chicken, took on re
newed energy several hours after
death. Immediately after death, the
hfart was frozen and kept. A few
hours later it was resuscitated bj
massage.
No claim is made that after death
life can be restored, but in many in
stances where life is thought to be
extinct it is only masked, and it re
mains for the scientist to discover
through experiment whether in* is
dealing with death itself or with “la
tent life."
many .but sweet profits will c«
to him that waits.”
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British Ashamed of T ., - ■ KJnttt Tti - .
Their Paltrv Graft i’ ^he ^ ew Mian
men raitry bralt Who Isn > t So Poor!
But They Have Adopted the Word
Which Fits Their Con- | In Oklahoma They Are Getting
ditions. From $9.00 to $12,000 a Month
From Oil Lands.
LONDON, May 5.—There has been
a general, not to say formal, adoption
qf the American word “graft,” for
want Of anything so concise and de
scriptive, in the revelations that have
come in an investigation by the Gov
ernment, an effort to show that there
has been a fixed tariff or “scale of
prices” for the .-elling of public ap-
pe<2cc2nc?nt.- by th* Poor Law Board
and that there has also been syste
matic bribery in contracts.
Ii is rather sheepishly pointed out
:'Mt the only difference between tile
orruption of local bodies here and in
ir United States is that the loot here
is so paltry
WASHINGTON, May 5.—Eastman
Richard, a Creek Indian, one of the
tribe of the famous Crazy Snake, was
forced by the Government to take an
allotment of 160 acres of land in the
Cushing, Okla., district. Since that
time oil has been discovered on his
allotment and he is receiving a
monthly income of from $9,000 'to
$12,000 according to Indian Agent
Dana H. Kelsey, of Muscogee, who Is
here to see Secretary Lane of the
Interior Department.
He said that many of the Creek In
dians are reaping a harvest from ho
oil fields at Cushing.
A veteran trader, bled and scarred
in the stock market these many
years, was leaning over the stock
ticker when he was asked what
he thought of New Haven stock.
It was then at 105. Without the
slightest hesitation he replied:
' [ think it will sell at 80 and
then break.” One current Wall
Street rumor—wheeze, rather—
is that the Fertilizer Trust wants
to acquire New Haven!
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Strong railroads used to pay for
equipment out of earnings. Now
they sell equipment trust certifi
cates every time they buy a car
or an engine.
New Zealand to Spend $2,500,000.
CHRISTCHURCH, N. Z.. May 5.-
Extensive public improvements are to
be made by the Government of New
Zealand. The Premier announced
Parliament to-day that there is a sur
plus of $3,500,000 in tin national
treasury for construction of public
works*.
WASHINGTON. May 5.—The st< .
industry in the East will be hard hit
by the new- tariff and business gen
erally will be unsettled for some
time. but the enterprise and resource
fulness of the country are sufficient
to justify expectations for continued
prosperity.”
Charles M. Schwab, president of the
Bethlehem Steel Corporation, thus
declared his optimism:
“I did not come to Washington tn
fight the tariff” he added. “I have
testified before several Congressional
committees that, if the tariff on ste n
were materially lowered we would b?
compelled to abandon plans for en
larging our plant at Bethlehem.
“I have been quoted as saying I
would go out of the steel business
if the country has a tariff such as
Is now’ proposed. 1 did not make a.iy
such statement, however. I am not
going to quit.”
Lawnless Peruvians
Get Lawn Mowers
Enterprising American Manufac
turer Tries to Build Business in
Sterile Field.
WASHINGTON, Alayf>— What is a
lawn mower without a lawn?—that
is what 11 n citizens of Callao, Peru,
want to know. They have viewed with
great curiosity a sample mower sent
down there by an American manu
facturer to tempt the trade. In view
of the fact that there are no lawns
in Peru folks there have had a treat.
Consul L. G. Dreyfus reports that
it has been suggested to him that
the manufacturer might send down
more of them to be sold as curiosi
ties in the novelty stores.
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Politician Becomes
Suffragist Martyr
Rich Englishman to Sell Luxuries to
Aid Socialists’ and Mili
tants’ Causes.
LONDON, May 5. H. 1). Harben,
of Newland Park, Bucks, a politician
of some note and considerable wealth,
startled, his friends to-day by an
nouncing he had decided to part wi'h
his horses, land and other luxuries in
order to assist the Socialist and Suf
fragist movements with his spar?
money.
Li Harben is a s«»n of the late :'
! Henry Harben, president of the Pra-
{dentin I Life Assurance Company.
THE PLAY
THIS WEEK
Keith Vaudeville at Forsyth.
One of the best future bills of the
season is promised at the Forsyth Thea
ter this week where a high-class pro
gram of Keith vaudeville-will be pre
sented. First performance will take
place this afternoon. As usual, there
will be matinees every day. The week’s
bill is headed by Gus Edwards Kid
Kabaret, an act which has already re
ceived the enthusiastic endorsement <<t
Broadway and the big cities of the Fast.
There are fifteen girls and boys in the
act. and they present all sorts of spec
ialties. Belle Storey, sweet singer of
charming songs, is also a feature All
the other numbers are said to he or
’he regular standard set by Keith.
Comedy in Play at the Atlanta.
‘ The Girl From Out Yonder” is the
play which will he presented this week
at the Atlanta Theater by Miss Billy
Long and her associate players. The
story of the play is interesting and
there's plenty of comedy in it. Miss
Long is cast for an unusually attrac
tive role and she is bound to make
many new friends by her portrayal of
the character. All the other members
of her excellent company have congen
ial lines and the play is going to be
presented in most complete fashion. Not
a detail has been overlooked. ‘ the
Girl From out Yonder” has. been pre
sented in Atlanta but once befdre. J’hat
was several years ago. Matinees will
b<* given this week on Wednesday and
Saturday.
Vaudeville and Pictures at Bijou.
A good bill of family vaudeville and
worth-while motion pictures is being
presented at the Bijou this week. There
are four acts in addition to •uc pictures.
The pictures tfTe changed daily. Mat
inees are given daily, beginning this
afternoon.
DUCHESS OF CONNAUGHT
EXPECTED TO RECOVER
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON. May 5.—Encouragement
for the ultimate recovery of the
Duchess of Connaught, wife of the
Governor General of Canada, who was
twice operated upon for intestinal
obstruction, was given to-day by the
attending physicians.
A bulletin issued ut noon stated
that the duchess had passed a good
night and that her general condition
: Glowed improvement.
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