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3 THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN A\D NEWS. MONDAY. MAY 12. 101?,. Important Sayings Bv important people on topics of live interest The second great object which is desired in this connection is to provide elastic currency, and this is expected to be accomplished by having the currency furnished to the reserve banks in a quantity sufficient for the needs of com merce. subject to an interest charge which will compel auto matic contraction when the extra currency is no longer seriously demanded. This currency probably will be Treasury notes, secured, however, by the additional security of the reserve banks and the member banks by being a first lien on their assets, but secured also by commercial paper of a specified class of short terms, indorsed by the original borrower, the local bank and the reserve bank, and set aside in the bill case of the re serve bank as security for such notes. It is proposed also to strength en the national bank system by giving its some additional priv ileges and providing- a great im provement in the bank examiners, giving them graded salaries ac cording to qualifications and work to be done, instead of the old fee system. Thief Turns Poet to Sound a Warning Benefit of “Going Straight” Told by One Who Admits “Going Wrong.” NEW YORK, May 12.—Ro.bert J. Lawrence, formerly a bank messen ger, was brought here from Los An geles. Cal., charged with stealing $1,400. On his trip across the conti nent he wrote the following: 'If you want a red nose and dim, bleary eyes. If you wish to be one whom all men despise. If you wish to be ragged and weary, and sad. If you w ish, in a word, to go to the bad— Go v. l ong. If you, tastes don't agree w ith th > "ifs" as above, if you'd rather have life full of brightness and love If you care not to venture or find out too soon That the gateway to he): lies . trough the tombs— Go straight. Miss Marie Fisher, of Charles ton, Guest of Honor at Open Air Feast. The famed Georgia barbecue has won another enthusiastic friend. The latest ally is beautiful Miss Marie Fisher, of Charleston, S. C. Miss Fisher was at a barbecue pre pared in her honor at the Kimball- v.ille farm of her cousin, Will V. Zimmer, and it was here she declared that she never had tasted anything so good in her life. ••if we could transplant these typi cal Georgia barbecues into South Carolina we would have such an era of good-fellowship there that Gov ernor Blease and all his opponents would become his fast friends and we’d have no more of those terrible fusses.” So said Miss Fisher as she poised a cleaver preparatory to bringing it down upon a particularly juicy piece of meat. For, with white-plumed hat slightly a-tilt and face (lushed with happiness, she was entering right into the spirit of the occasion and busily assisting in serving. “The nearest tve have to a barbe cue in South Carolina is a fish fry, and that’s no fun at all compared to a Georgia barbecue,” she complained. Miss Fisher is of a wealthy South Carolina family and has been visiting relatives in Atlanta for several weeks. She will return home Thursday. Disastrous Floods Sweeping Scotland Crops Badly Damaged and Much Stock Killed by Waters in Perthshire Section. ! Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. PKRTH, SCOTLAND, May 12.— j Disastrous Hoods are ravaging the southeastern part of Perthshire, doing j extensive damage. A great inland j ; sea. 2 1-2 mile s broad, has been | formed near Blairgowria on Lach j j Erich. Bridges and railroad tracks} j have been washed away and roadsj ! are impassable. Crops have been damaged greatly* land much live stock has been killed. I Miss Marie Fisher, of Charleston, S. C., visiting: here, who Ihinks a Georgia barbecue would reconcile Blease and his foes. Calls Persian Tunic Best Garb for Women Wife of Lecturer Who Has Visited All Lands Adopts That Costume. NEW YORK. May 12.—Mrs. R. G. Knowles, wife of the explorer and lecturer, is inclined to the belief af ter visiting every country in the world stoat for combination of art and comfort no dress excels that of the wtfrnen of Persia. To back up her opinion Mrs. Knowles ha- appeared at some of her soirees and afternoon receptions at tired in the unusual dress of the grande dame’ of Persia. It ! consists of a draped divided tunic, which looks like, but is not exactly, the Eastern “bloomers.” The garment Is of heavy silken striped material in wonderful colors, Mrs. Knoivlet* has added an Occidental touch to this costume by wearing silk stockings and satin slippers instead of sandals. PORTUGUESE WARSHIP CRASHES UPON ROCKS Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. HONGKONG, May 12.—A wireless message received here to-day stated that the Portuguese cruiser Adamas- tor, bound from the Portuguese De pendency of Macao to Lisbon, had t rashed upon a rook near Dumbell Is land and was badly damaged. Tjwo British warships have rushed to give aid. Woman, 93, Races in Auto and Wins Defeats Woman of Twenty-five in ! Twenty Miles—Shopping Tour Expenses the Stake. DELMONT. PA.. May 12.—As the result of some good-natured banter ing over the speed of their motor < ars and their ability as drivers. Mrs. George Wallace, ninety-three, and Mrs. Harry Leordon, twenty-five, rat ed twenty miles to Greensburg, the stakes being the expenses of a shop ping tour in the latter town. The start was made at 8:30 a. m., and 53 minutes later the elder wom an drove her car into Greensburg. Two minutes later Mrs. Leordon ar rived. Mrs. Wallace had never once slackened speed, and according to Mr. and Mrs. William Blose, her passengers, she took the curves anti corners with the daring of an Old- Held. U, 0, C. RECORDS DAMAGED BY FLOODS IN KENTUCKY The cancer death rate in the United States is increasing at the rate of 2‘-2 per cent a year, and a corre sponding increase is occurring practically throughout the world. The average age at death In cancer of all forms is 59 years—60.4 years for men ami 58.2 for women. Of the total mortality from cancer 90 per cent of the victims are forty years old or more.”—Frederick J. Hoff man. statistician of one of Ameri ca’s biggest insurance companies. ‘The American college of to-day is Members of the Atlanta Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy, have been sent the following notice by Mrs. W. S. Coleman, recording sec retary: “On account of the recent floods in Kentucky, the home of Mrs. Roy McKinney, recording secretary gen eral, of Paducah. Ky.. has been inun dated and her papers confused and damaged. She will send out the cer tificates for membership just as soon as she is able to resume business.” between the upper and nether mill stones. The German-American uni- I versity has now become the home of scholarship and research, if the American college is to repeat in the twentieth century the inestimable | service it rendered to American civ- i llization in the nineteenth century! it must recognize the dawn of a new era. Let the typical graduate be trained "not only in scholarshins I and culture, but how to loaf wisely.” J —Henry Dou's Smith, president of Washington and Lee University. “In my judgment everything which occuis in court should be open to public hearing. The fact that an action for divorce is pending should be given the widest publicity to pre vent fraud and injury to those who are innocent. I do not think, how ever. that the loathsome details— more humiliating generally to the innocent than guilty -should o • published." Justice Guy of the New York State Supreme Cburt. 1 feel as if I am m iking a twentieth I century flight into another world. Comparisons are impossible; it will take me some time to get my breath. What a lot Europe might I learn from wondrous America! But; then one must consider; it is much j easier to build up a pew country J than to change an old one.” C. de ' Bruyne, an Alderman of Ghent, Bel- i gium. who is visiting New York. BRYAN TO SPEAK AT AUBURN. | AUBURN. ALA.. May 12.—Secret i. \ iv of State Bryan will be one of the speakers at the home-coming week at Alabama Polytechnic Institute i June 2. For the convenience of our readers we have arranged with the following news dealers to redeem Hearst’s Sunday American Pennant Coupons; # •T ACKSOX'-WKSSEL DREG CO.. Marietta and Broad Streets. « MARSHALL PHARMACY. Peachtree and Ivv Streets. PALMER BRANCH 389 Peachtree Shvel. CRl’ICKSHAXK CIGAR CO.. Peachtree and Pryor Streets, i’R'EICKSIIAN'K CIGAR CO.. Mitchell and Whitehall Streets. HARBOURS SMOKE IIOESK, 41 X. Prvor Street. WEINBERGER BROS. CIGAR STORE. Alabama and Pryor Streets. BROWN i ALLEN, Alabama and Whitehall Streets. STAR NEWS CO., Marietta ami Broad Streets. STAR NEWS CO.. Peachtree and Walton Streets. WORLD NEWS CO.. Peachtree and Marietta Streets. IIAMES DRCG CO.. 380 Whitehall Street. ARAGON HOTEL NEWS STAND. ATLANTA SODA CO., Broad and Marietta Streets. ATLANTA SODA CO.. Mitchell and Whitehall Streets. MEDLOCK PHARMACY. Lee and Gordon Streets. WEST END PHARMACY. Lee and Gordon Streets. JOHNSON SODA CO.. 411 Whitehall Street. WHITEHALL ICE CREAM CO.. 284 Whitehall Street. T. J. STEWART. Cooper and Whitehall Streets. GREATER ATLANTA SODA CO.. 209 Peachtree Street. ADAMS & WISE DREG STORE. Peachtree and Linden Streets. TAYLOR BROS. DRUG CO., Peachtree and Tenth Streets. TAYLOR BROS. DREG CO.. West Peachtree and Howard Streets. CRYSTAL SODA CO.. Luckie and Broad Streets. ELKIN DREG CO.. Peachtree and Marietta Streets. ELKIN DREG CO.. Grand Theater Building. •JACOBS’PHARMACY, Alabama and Whitehall Streets. Out-cf- Town Dealers: BENNETT BROS.. 1409 Newcastle Street. Brunswick. Ga. •lOE N. BURNETT. 413-A King Street, Charleston, S. C. REX VIXING, Dalton, (la. ORA LYONS, Griffin, Ga. 1 HE GEORGIAN CAFE. East Clayton Street, Athens, Ga. M. & W. CIGAR COMPANY. East Clayton Street. Athens, Ga. COLLEGE CAFE, Broad and College Streets. Athens, <4a. ORR DRUG CO., East Clayton Street, Athens, Ga. BOSTON CAFE. North College Avenue. Athens. Ga. SUNDAY AMERICAN BRANCH OFFICE. ll>5 East Clavtou Street, Athens, Ga. . ROME BOOK STORE COMPANY. Rome, Ga. CHEROKEE NEWS STAND. Rome, Ga. H K. EVERETT. Calhoun. Ga. The Heal'st s Sunday American Pennants arc 1 durably made in fast col ors, with heavily embossed, felted letters. Kadi of them will artistically re produce the colors and the seal or mascot of some great university or college. Old Gold and White. From four News Dealer Four Colors. Orange and Blue. Look for the Pennant Coupon in next Sunday s issue of Fair South Carolinan Lauds Georgia Barbecue 1 : j^© (fj'KB era CURRENCY LI ^ ure ^ ne Would Reconcile Blease and His Foes Agetff-T&wH. Oh, Joy! Ice Wagon Really Turns Over. Out in Wei: Fnd the in* wagons j which ply that hriving section for! imESEssni Bill as Outlined Provides for Emergency Notes Issued Against Commercial Paper, By JOIj^N TEMPLE GRAVES. WASHINGTON, May 12.—The Wil son currency bill will follow swiftly upon the Wilson-Underwood tariff. The President has said it, and there will be no failure to do his will. With the tariff bill disposed of by the House, the Chief Executive has set his representatives to work, and by the time the House returns to its regular sessions three weeks hence, it will have for immediate considera tion a bill that will embody The Wil son view of the currency. Senator Robert L. Owen, of Okla homa, is chairman of the Senate Committee on Banking and Currency, and Carter Glass, of Virginia, will be the chairman of the House Commit tee as soon as that position is filled. The President expresses full con fidence that he will be able to press this currency bill to enactment be fore the special session adjourns. He goes the full length of positive speech in declaring iu will be a law before the general session of Congress. He is fully as emphatic about it as he was about the tariff bill. Outline of the Bill. From an inside and absolutely re liable source I have the exclusive out line of the administration’s currency bill, which is substantially as fol- folws, stated with the bias of the Ad ministration’s friends: First, to provide a plan which will make available for commer cial purposes in larger degree the reserves of the banks by permit ting the reserves to go in large part to reserve banks, incorpo rated and located in sufficient number of places to be convenient of access tef all the banks of the country. By permitting these reserve banks to borrow and lend to each other, and by permitting them to rediscount for smaller banks commercial paper of specified standard, based on actual com mercial transactions, the member banks could obtain a credit mar ket for commercial paper from the reserve banks in which they have stock. The probable stock of the reserve banks would total 10 per cent of the present stock and surplus of the national banks, amounting to about $160,000,000. Government Depositaries. It is proposed that Government deposits shall be kept in these re serve banks and thus become available for use by the commerce of the country. Moreover, there probably would be an inducement held out to the member banks which would organize the reserve banks to keep larger deposits with the reserve bank by allow ing them a part of the earning power of such reserve banks, ap portioned to their average depos its. By this system the reserve banks would start off when in running order with an available capital of approximately $800,- 000.000, and the reserve of the country will be made much more active and fluent than heretofore. Elastic Currency Plan. {trade usually are followed about* { from street to street bp children who, are looking for small bits of the con-* gcaled moisture when chipped off by the icemen. The drivers of these j I wagons seem to be on the Job from I season to season and conn to know I all the children by name. f Sever.il days ago, when the weath er was lather warm, a joyous ca-| t a strophe happened on Culberson Street. One of the big wagons was ■n the street when the mules attach ed to it became frightened at a piece of paper which was fluttered about under their noses by a sudden gust of wind. The mules bolted. Down the street they tore at break neck speed. Then one of the wheels -hit an electric wire pole and the wagon promptly turned 'over, break ing the. wagon tongue and strewing the street with his cakes of ice. The children viewed the affair with squeals of delight. Not only had they been treated to a sure enough I runaway, but here was enough ice on the ground to make their little tummies cool for a week. So down they swooped on the wreckage. They were met by. one of the ic« men who politely but firm ly informed the kiddies there w a - nothing doing. The ice. he said, still belonged to the company and he’d protect it with his .ife. That started something. The children surrounded him and filched bits; of ice when lie wasn’t looking. The driver had gone to a nearby tele phone to have another wagon sent out to carry off the remains of the load. The man <»n guard had his hands i full and realizing he was no match I for the horde of youngsters, toe bar- ; gained with them. Everybody got! a big chunk of ice provided they’d promise to go ’way and let the rest] of it alone. And the kiddies kept i their promise. • * * Wore a Flower For Mother’s Sake. It was Mothers’ Day in Atlanta.) and all over tin* country, yesterday j and lots of men wore a white flower j for mother's sake. Many of the At- j lanta florists anticipated a demand} s for flowers and laid in a big supply j of white carnations. For a long time in Atlanta nnjn j | didn't like to wear flowers. The only explanation is that they might be taken for weaklings; the habit,} they figured, wa- one for women, not men. There is one man In the city, however, who for thirty years has always worn a little buttonhole bouquet, summer and winter. is the confidential man for one of the big drygoods concerns and al- , though he celebrated his seventv-sec- • until birthday yesterday—he is as | straight and active as a man of half j that age. He is passionately fond of flowers and if he were to be with- I out his little bouttontiiere it is like- I iy that the day would seem all wrong to him. His wife has made it her special duty to see that bis bouquet is ready each morning, usually plac ing It beside his plate at breakfast. His bouquet yesterday was a beau tiful white carnation, a little token of love for the old mother who died a good many years ago in Ireland.