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IIEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, C.A., SUNDAY, .JUNE 1, 1913.
The End of the Journey--- The Grave of Ice in Which the Bodies of
Captain Scott and His Brave Comrades on Polar Dash Now Lie
I HE cairn in the frozen wastes of the Antarctic where to-day lie the bodies of Captain Robert
Faloon Scott, Dr. Edward A. Wilson and Lieutenant H. R. Bowers. The bodies were cov
ered with the tent in which they were found by the rescuing- party, and records identifying them
were left in the tomb of ice. Over the mass of ice and snow the cross erected by the rescuers in
Influence of Statesmen From
Dixie at Washington Is More
Pronounced Than at Any Time
Since the Days of Civil War,
Wilson Himself Born Southerner
Has Treated South Liberally in
the Selection of His Cabinet
and in Filling Other Posts.
W ASHINGTON. May SI —It is only
two or throe years since Mr Taft
as President went through the South
urging Southerners to hasten the day
when they again would take an active
and Important part In the conduct
of the Federal Government. Mr. Taft
waa sincere In his desire to see the
South attain the Influential place It
occupied at the national capital be
fore the Civil War. but he probably
did not anticipate the fulfillment of
his wishes in lust the way it has
been brought about.
The South and Southern Influences
are more strongly represented in the
Government at Washington than at
any other time since the Civil War.
Political observers are beginning to
realize this more and more as the
lists of appointments to the Federal
service come from the White House
end the new committee assignments
in Congress are studied.
In the first place the Presidency
itself is in the hands of a man South
ern born for the first time in nearly
half a century. Woodrow Wilson was
born in Virginia, was graduated from
the University of Virginia, founded
by Thomas Jefferson, and has re
tained strong Southern sentiments
from his early training and surround
ings
Wilson Liberal to South.
In choosing his cabinet Mr. Wilson
’ has been very liberal to the South.
More Southerners are in charge of
the big executive departments of the
Government than since back in the
’50s.
Grover Cleveland gave only two of
his cabinet posts to the South in his
first administration. He selected Lu
cius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, of
Mississippi, for his Secretary of In
terior and Augustus H. Garland, of
Arkansas for his Attorney General.
When Cleveland was elected in
1892. he gave only three of the eight
cabinet places to the South—select
ing John G. Carlisle, of Kentucky,
for Secretary of the Treaaury, Hilary
A. Herbert, of Alabama, for Secre
tary of the Navy, and Hoke Smith, of
Georgia, for Secretary of the Interior.
Three of the ten men In President
Wilson’s cabinet are credited directly
to Southern States, two others were
born and have lived most of their
lives in the South and one is from
a border State.
MeAdeo a Southerner.
Josephus Daniels, Secretary of the
Navy, comes from North Carolina;
James C. McReynolds. the Attorney
General, is from Tennessee, and Al
bert S. Burleson, the Postmaster Gen
eral, Is a Texan.
The Secretary of the Treasury, Wil-
DECATUR
These are a few offerings that we have in
Decatur:
An—lot 95x250—16-room boarding house
•""proposition. Every city convenience ex
cept gas. In 2 minutes walk car and 30
minutes from heart of Atlanta. Easy
terms.
m AA—large 10-room house opposite beautiful
•''''court house square; lot 100x250. Good
investment as it stands, and value is be
ing pounded into it every day by the de
velopment of Druid Hills into Decatur.
. AA—on Ponce DeLeon Avenue, 10 rooms,
I •""lot 80x200, beautifully shaded and now-
occupied by one of Decatur's most pros
perous citizens. Never offered before, but
owner is going to build a new home and
offers this on easy terms. THIS IS A
GENTLEMAN’S HOME.
-Meads Road, 150 yards car line—wa-
'ter, sewer and sidewalks; 6 rooms, ele
vated lot; about 20 minutes from Equi
table building. Terms too easy to discuss
here.
LOTS
CHURCH STREET—300 feet at $22.00 per foot.
M’DONOUGH STREET—100 feet at $15.00 per foot.
M’DONOUGH STREET (South)—92 feet at $21 per foot.
TRINITY AVENUE (this is a beauty)—300 feet at $22
per foot.
CLEREMONT AVENUE—60 feet at $25.00 per foot.
These lots are all on good streets and are below the
market. They are good as investments or are good for
homes.
Decatur is absolutely the most attractive
suburb around Atlanta, and any buy at present
prices is a good investment. Atlanta is spread
ing— pushing~and pounding values into every
inch of Decatur dirt.
$3250*
EDWIN P. ANSLEY
Ivy 1600
DECATUR DEPT.
All. 363
liam G. McAdoo, is credited to Nesv
York State, but it requires only a
slight stretch of memory to recall
the time when he entered New York
City fresh from Georgia with noth
ing to build on save one big idea
and plenty of pluck.
David F. Houston. Secretary of Ag
riculture. not only comes from Mis
souri. a border State, but is a South
erner by birth and training. He was
born in North Carolina, was grad
uated from the South Carolina Col
lege and was president of the Uni
versity before he became chancellor
of Washington University in St.
Louis.
As contrasted with this impressive
list of Southern Cabinet officers, Mr.
Taft’s official family contained at
the close of his administration not a
single man who was credited to a
Southern State. The nearest approach
to it was Charles Nagel, of St. Louis,
who was Secretary of Commerce and
Labor. He was a native of Texas.
At the beginning of his administra
tion, President Taft gave the War
portfolio to Jacob McG. Dickinson, a
Tennessee Democrat, but Dickinson
resigned before the four years were
up.
Also Get Minor Places.
The recent growth of Southern in
fluence in high places also is plainly
reflected In the character of minor
appointments. Southerners have
been coming in for a large share of
these, although Northern Democrats
have no ground for grumbling on this
score. ,
Sectionalism has played no part
with the President in making his se
lections, high or low. He has tried to
base his appointments solely on mer
it and has passed out the nomina
tions impartially to North and South.
However, the fact that there ha/e
been so few Southerners in important
offices under Republican administra
tion has served to emphasize the se
lections that Mr. Wilson has made
from this part of the country.
In the Treasury Department, Sec
retary McAdoo has drawn on the
South for assistance which in years
gone almost invariably has come from
Northern States, usually from the big
money centers, like New York City.
When it came to selecting his first
assistant, the man who handles the
finances of the Government, chiefly in
its relations with the banks, Mr. Mc
Adoo turned to Virginia and captured
John Skelton Williams, a high class
banker.
From North Carolina.
The administration of the Internal
Revenue Bureau is in the hands if
a Southerner also. William H. Os
born, of North Carolina, has been ap
pointed by President Wilson to suc
ceed Royal E. Cabell.
In the Department of Justice the
first assistant is James A. F'owler,
of Tennessee, who was with the
Wickersham administration. Mr.
McReynolds has retained him.
One of the most important anoint
ments in the South that the Presi
dent has yet made was that of Wil
liam J. Harris, of Georgia, to succeed
E. Dana Durant, of California, as Di
rector of the Census. Mr. Harris w ~
chairman of the Georgia State Demo
cratic Committee and has been u
active political factor in that Stale
for several ''ears. It is acknowledge 1
that he is capable and efficient, bn
his- TromiUTttion has been attacked *>y
the Republicans more bitterly than
any other.
The Republicans say Mr. Durant
was a college professor before he en
tered the Government service and was
thoroughly equmned as an expert to
give the best possible service. Mr.
Wilson, however, believed that an of
fice of this character, which takes the
census of American industries, should
be in charge of a man who is thor
oughly in sympathy with the admin
istration’s tariff and other policies.
Mr. Wilson’s most important diplo
matic appointment also has gone to a
Southerner by birth. Walter H. Page,
the newly appointed Ambassador to
the Court of St. James, is credited
to New York, but was born in North
Carolina.
Among the other important ap
pointments that have gone to the
South are Robert W. Wooley, of Vir
ginia. to be auditor of the Interior
Department; James L. Beity, of Mis
souri, to be auditor of the War De
partment; Ernest Lester Jones, of
Virginia, to be deputy commissioner
of the Bureau of Fisheries; Alexan
der R. Magruder, of Maryland, to be
secretary of the legation at Copen
hagen; Charles A. Wood, of South
Carolina, to be United States Circuit
Judge of the Fourth Circuit; Edward
K. Campbell, of Alabama, to be Chief
Justice of the Court of Claims; Lu
cius Q. C. Lamar, of Mississippi, to
be recorder of the General Land Of
fice, and Henry S. Breckenridge, of
Kentucky, to be Assistant Secretary
of War.
In addition to this Cato Sells, the
Democratic National Committeeman
from Texas, is about to be named In
dian Commissioner.
In the United States Senate the
chairmanships of all the important
committees except three are in the
hands of Southern Senators. The
three exceptions are the Committee
on lnteroceanic Canals, Senator O’-
Gorman, of New York, chairman; the
Committee on Interstate Commerce,
Senator Newlands, of Nevada, chair
man and the Committee on Rules,
Senator Kern, of Indiana, chairman.
Head Big Committee.
The chairmanships of the three big
committees in the Senate (Finance,
Appropriations and Foreign Rela
tions) are in the hands respectively
of Senators Simmons, of North Car
olina, Martin, of Virginia and Bacon,
of Georgia.
The House committees have not
memory of the heroes is seen. In the background of the picture are to be seen the skis of Captain
Soott that carried him over so many miles of snow and ice. They were planted upright in a small
mound of frozen snow by the rescuers, and so firmly that neither wind nor storm would be likely
to dislodge them. About the icy tomb may be seen the footprints of the rescuing party.
PLIYER-PIANO
CLUB HIS NEW
T. E. Weatherholt Says Advertise
1
ing Campaign in Georgian
Brought Him Havana Fee.
Even In tropical Cuba haa interest
been awakened in the WeatherhoUl
player-piano club through the ad-f
vertlaing campaign In The Georgian
and Hearst'e Sunday American by tha
Weatherholt Plano Company.
T. E. Weatherholt, president of tha
company, reported yesterday that ha
had received a membership fee from
i Havana. The coupon was clipped
from Heartt's Sunday American, and
Mr. Weatherholt immediately ar
ranged for the shipment of a club
player to the Cuban capital.
Although this is the first member,
I ship received from a foreign country,
letters and coupons have been reoetv*
ed by Mr. Weatherholt from nearly
every State In the South, and thesa
letters show that his offer of a t(80
player-piano for 8488.B0 on terms of
810 down and 82 50 per week has made
a sensation.
Mr. Weatherholt explains that he is
able to make this offer because of the
enormous purchasing power repre
sented In a club of 400 members co
operating together for the benefit of
each other. He says this is the first
time In the musical history of the
South that an opportunity has been
offered lovers of music to secure a
high-class player-piano at such a
price and on such terms. ✓
An attractive part of the Weather-
hell plan is the club features, whlah
Include no interest on deferred pay
ments, 18 rolls of music, bench, free
life Insurance, ten-year guarantee,
one year's trial and access to a free
library of 5,000 rolls of player music.
This last feature Is proving very at
tractive for the reason that It allows
each member to exchange twelve foil*
of music every day if desired.
FLOOD GRAVEL TURNS
FARM LAND TO DESERT
been completely organized, but
Southern Democrats held all the im
portant chairmanships in the last
Congress with the exception of the
Appropriations and Foreign Affairs
committees, Fitzgerald of New York,
being chairman of the former and
Sulzer of the same State heading the
latter.
The big Ways and Means Commit
tee, which already has been chosen
for the present Congress and which
not only handles the tariff bill, but
all other committee assignments, is
about evenly divided in membership
of the majority party between North
ern and Southern States. The Com
mittee on Riles has five Democrats
from Southern States to two from
the North. Not only will the tariff be
revised under the leadership of South
ern Democrats, but the same forces
will handle the revision of the cur
rency laws.
It should be said, however, that
there is not a semblance of sectional
feeling among the Democrats over
the makeup of the committees. The
facts instanced here are merely in-
D R O PSY
SPICIALIITI
give qvl«k ratter ucuittr
from tha flnt. Atm. Dl»-
U-wulng Symptom* raslrt
0 iUappaar B walling
and ahort breath noon
raroovad; of tan gtrm an
Ur# ratter in 18 to SI
‘lara. A trial treatment
FftKC br mall
Dr. H. M. Ortan’t Sana
Bax 0. Atlanta. 8a.
THE SCENIC WAY
WITH DINING CARS
tended to show how generally and
with what strength the South Is as
serting herself In the conduct of af
fairs In Washington under the new
administration.
t (WEN8V1LLE. IND., May-
body of rlrh farm land,
more than a thousand acres. In
flood country west of town,
converted Into a miniature
desert as the result of the reoent
flow of the Wabash Rivsr. The
Is covered with gravel and sand
Ing in depth from two Inches to
feet In some places fences are
merged In sand. There Is
whether this land will ever
value for farming purposes.
{ present state It Is said to be
ese.
In many Wabash looaHtles the
has not proved the soil enrlcher
peeted. Deep gravel and sand
the liver’s gift, Instead of rich
A GUN FOR LAND, SEA AND
r
ADDITIONAL TRAIN
SERVICE.
Effective Sunday. June 1st, the
Louisville and Nashville Railroad will
establish double daily service between
’artersnille, Ga., and Etowah, Term.
Train 35 will leave Etowah 6:30 a.
m., arrive Cartersville 9:25 a. m.;
train 36 will leave <’artersville 10:30
a. m., arrive Etowah 1:30 p. in.; train
37 will leave Etowah 2:20 p. m., ar
rive Garter-wille 5:20 p. in.; train 38
Will leave GartersviiV* •':12 p. ru.
arrive Etowah 10:10 p. rn. a '.v.
Sorosis Shoe
Department
Extra Special Bargains Monday
Women’s $2.50 White Canvas Pumps ^ «
Monday .*
Women’s $3.00 White Canvas Pumps a s
Women’s $3.50 White Buckskin Pumps ^/y a j-
Women’s $3.50 Patent Colt Pumps a/y AS
Women’s $3.50 Patent Button Oxfords .
Monday fi.4j
Women’s $3.50 Gun Metal Button Oxfords . p
Women’s $4.00 Black Satin Pumps aq
Monday
Women’s $3.00 Satin Evening Slippers -i qc
Monday
Misses’ $2.00 Patent and Gun Metal Pumps, | cq
111-2 to 2, Monday
Boys’ $2.50 Gun Metal and Tan Oxfords, gp | /:q
21-2 to 6, Monday qPl.OV
Boys’ $1.00 Black and White Tennis Oxfords AQr*
Monday.
Youths’ 75c Black and White Tennis Oxfords C Q
Monday
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Be it known that 1. Robert Alexmder Tute, a subject of the King of
Great Britain, residing at Atlanta. Ga.. have invented certain new and
. fu 1 ; mpiovem<nts in airship des; rovers. This invention relates to a!
gun and projectile for use against troops, ships and airships, and has for ,
its obj ct trie production of a destroyer which may be readily changed to
;.nv d. rcr rnele, so that an effective aim may be obtained within a!
minlnum amount of time. As I have accomplished my work with vari-
ojs p"V rs of the world, I will have same manufactured in England.
My native home is in South America, British Guiana.