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i ! T!1 Vn.AXTA OKO'Jfil \\ AM) NEWS. MONDAY. MAY f>. 1!)1f!. * [i * •j-H-H-l-H- HONEST! NEVER AGAIN 'i 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. JOKE^ fc* CO LAWYERS BY the ter/^5 OF Your.' late UNCLES WILL you I Inherit $1000000 J IM OVER OYED Ican now qo IN TO BUSINESS.I'M tired workinq v for, OTHER People T WHAT SORT OF BUSINESS; WERE You qoiNq/NTo? A. BACK To THE FARM.I IM qoiNQ IN To THE CHICKEN KAISINCf Business - lots Money IN IT THEY say ■fb 3 iidi o .. ' a o 0 © « 3 o o o ^ o © <—> © £5 <£> <=- ® ® a o ® 0 ® e> feu? ££> ^ WHAT HEEXPECTEP PER DAN %oom .••Wrv THe coup Mr If pacts SMTCH $ 10 O o - charcoal. . W4 Fe*( $2.0 00 0 CRowyp » /foo O 51R LO//V -Op Beet SVRPs t/ooo Back To thf an ni :: 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. * * <: 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. * * * 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. * * “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.” * * * 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. of 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.” me 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! * # 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. i 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. Get College Pennants Old Gold and White. From Your News Dealer For the convenience of our readers we have arranged with the following news dealers to redeem Hearst’s Sunday American Pennant Coupons: .l.\( 1KSON-WESSEL DRUG CO., Marietta and Broad Streets. .MARSHALL PHARMACY, Peachtree and Ivy Streets. PALMER BRANCH, :)89 Peachtree Street. CRPICKSHANK CIGAR CO.. Peachtree and Pryor Streets. 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