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VOL. I. NO. 16.
BRYAN OUGHT
TO LIVE ON HIS
PAY OR 0011,
SAYSENATORS
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Explanation of Secretary of State
More Amazing Than His Acts,
Declares Bristow, Who Intro
duced Resolution to Investigate t
i
Wilson’s Premier Capitalizing His
Position, Asserts Representa
tive Willis—Much Work To Be
Done in His Department.
WASHINGTON, July 19.—The con- ,
senaus of opinion among public and
private persons In the National Capi
tal is that if Secretary Bryan can not
live on his salary of $12,000 a year
he ought to resign and continue his
lecture tours as a private individual.
Mr. Bryan to-day gave evidence of
the fact that the country-wide criti
cism had got under his skin. That he .
was irritated and Impatient and real
ized the “bad break" he has made was
apparent to his subordinates througti
out the day. Somewhat petulantly he
declared that the press of the coun
try might have assumed that “my
lecture engagements are subject to
cancellation.”
Publicly, Mr. Bryan announced to
the country that he could not live on ’
a salary’ about which his fellow Cab
inet members have not complained,
and in a second statement, given out
authoritatively, complained that crit
icism was groundless.
Evades Paper's Questions.
The American to-day endeavored to
obtain from Mr. Bryan more In de
tail the reasons that actuated him to
arrange to leave his post of duty at a
time when very grave matters per
taining to our relations with foreign
powers were pending. He declined to
answer certain questions and refused
to discuss the subject of his official
pronunciamento.
Mr. Bryan was asked these ques
tions by The American:
“If you feel your duty is to yonr
private pocketbook rather than to
the ‘great common people’ to whom
you have preached simplicity for
the last seventeen years, why do
you not resign and devote your en
tire time to the lecture platform
and literary pursuits?
“If you believe the people have
called you to the great office you
can fill so ably, do you not believe ,
that it Is your duty as an American
and a patriot to sacrifice your per
sonal interests for the Interests of
your country? The more so from
the fact that you admit you have
saved about $200,000, which is con
siderably more than a competence
when invested shrewdly?
"You say that you entered one
campaign from the Chautauqua
platform. Is It not a fact that you
look upon the present and future 1
engagements as the best opportu
nity to get in direct touch with the
people, who, you contend, will elect
the next President by direct vote?”
Bryan Leaves to Lecture.
No answer was returned to the
questions. Later in the day he left
Washington to keep an engagement
to lecture. I
Senator Bristow, author of the reso
lution calling upon the President for
information as to what salary ought
to be paid to enable Mr. Bryan te
stay in Washington and attend to his
public duties, to-day came back with (
a rejoinder to Mr. Bryan’s explanation
of last night.
“Secrttary Brya-’s second state,
ment has astounded me even more
than his first one,” said Mr. Bristow.
"That the present Secretary of State
should have such a sordid view of
the Governmtnt service is amazing.
“Secretary Bryan says he has a
right to use his vacation for lectur
ing if he sees fit. But he is to be
away on one tour of six weeks, and
there is no telling where his vacation
will end.
Needed at His Post.
"Besides, since he has been Secre
tary of State he has been in Wash
ington only about one-half the time
so far. If ever there was a time
when the Secretary of State was
needed on the job it is now, when so
many Important questions are up for
consideration. To cause the people
to pay money to hear the Secretary
of State, the highest officer in the
Cabinet, deliver addresses Is all
Continued on Page 12, Column 1.
U. S. State Secrets
‘Lifted’ From Wire
By Mexican Agents
Information Worth Thousands of
Dollars Finds Its Way Into
Possession of Huerta.
WASHINGTON, July 19.—A copy
of the official code of the State De
partment, containing Information
worth thousands of dollars to foreign
governments, has fallen into the
hands of the Mexican administration.
It Is being used to further the ends
of the Huerta regime, It was asserted
here to-day.
For some months State Department
officials have suspected that the Gov
ernment telegrams from Mexico City
have been tampered with, It Is de
clared, but this was not considered
Important, as all the dispatches were
in code, and, therefore, theoretically
illegible.
About three weeks ago, however,
Government officials here had their
first inkling that the Mexicans were
obtaining the gist of dispatches pass
ing between the State Department and
Ambassador Wilson.
The agents of the almost unknown
"secret service” of the State Depart
ment were put on the trail and evi
dence was obtained that the Govern
ment dispatches had been “lifted”
from the wires In Mexico and de
coded. the information contained
therein being transmitted to President
Huerta and his Cabinet.
Girl Traps a Thief
In Telephone Booth
Sets Shoulder Against Door and
Holds Man Until Cries Bring
Her Aid.
NEW YORK. July 19.—Holding a
thief trapped in a telephone booth.
Miss Florence Rosenthal, cashier in
Edward Feuhrer’s drug store at No.
53 Second avenue, finally succeeded
in delivering him to the police yes
terday.
The captive, who said he was Alex
ander Moskowitz, 17 years old, was
so long “telephoning" that Miss Ros
enthal went to the booth to see If
he was dead or alive. She saw him
opening the money box with a screw
driver, she says. Screaming for her
employer. she set her shoulder
against the door, and the youth
could not force it open. Moskowitz
was held for trial.
Burleson Eats but
Two Meals Each Day
Postmaster General Believes In and
Practices "Early to Bed, Early
to Rise” Theory.
WASHINGTON. July 19—Post
master General Burleson believes
thoroughly in the old adage, "Early to
bed and early to rise makes a man
healthy, wealthy and wise.” He prac
tices this theory himself and in addi
tion supplements it by a two-meal-a
day program.
His dally routine Is as follows:
“I arise at 5 In the morning.
“Read the papers until 6.
“Breakfast.
“Go over papers and reports until 9.
"Work at the Postoffice Department
until 5 in the afternoon without any
lunch or lunch hour.
"Dinner at 6 to 7 o’clock.
"Eight o'clock—go to bed.”
“Cooling Period” to
Halt Divorce Evil
Pastor Suggests That Three Months
Elapse Between Final Hearing
and Decision of Court.
ATLANTIC CITY. July 19.—Speak
ing on “The Modern Problem of Mar
riage and Divorce,” before the Central
Conference of American Rabbis here
to-day, the Rev. L. Leonard Levy, of
Pittsburg, advocated a "cooling” pe
riod of three months from the time of
the final hearing until the decision Is
announced as the solution of the prob
lem of minimizing the divorce evil.
"This cooling period," said the speak
er, “would cover a time during which
neither of the parties at interest could
marry.”
Marries His Aunt,
12 Years His Senior
Young Actor Takes as Bride the
Recently Divorced Wife of
His Uncle.
NEW YORK. July 19.—Earl Oscar
Schenck, 24 years old, an actor, of No.
600 West 138th street, was married in
the City Hall yesterday to his aunt,
Marlon Carr Schenck, twelve years
his senior.
The bride of yesterday was married
in April, 1899, to Oscar A. Schenck,
the uncle of her present husband, who
on January 17 of this year divorced
her tn Columbus, Ohio, "for gross
neglect of duty.”
S ugrHSIAMERICAN
Copyright. 1913. by
The Georgian Company.
SHORTAGE HITS
NATIONAL BANK
LT LAFAYETTE
Comptroller of Currency Orders
Institution Closed When De
falcation Is Discovered.
ARRESTS ARE LIKELY
Preliminary Examination Shows
That It Has Been Looted of
Not Less Than $30,000.
WASHINGTON, July 19. —Acting
Comptroller of the Currency Kane to
day announced that the First Nation
al Bank of Lafayette, Ga., has been
closed by National Bank Examiner
Thomas C, Dunlap, with the authority
of the board of directors, on account
of a large shortage which makes tho
bank Insolvent.
Mr. Kane says he has not received
a detailed report of the condition of
the bank. Mr. Dunlap has been ap
pointed receiver.
“We do not know how big the de
falcation may be,” said Mr. Kane,
"but our preliminary examination has
shown that It is not less than $30,-
000. This shortage has occurred since
May 23, when the bank was last ex
amined. Suspicion on the part of of
ficers of the bank several days ago
that a shortage existed caused the n
to call in Examiner Dunlap. Discov
ery of the embbezzlement resulted.
"In his telegraphic advices to me
Mr. Dunlap does not say to whom
suspicion attaches. The last state
ment of the condition of the bank,
issued on June 4. showed the bank to
be in a proper state. The president
of the bank is R. N. Dickerson, and
S. A. Hunt, Jr., is cashier.”
In a telegram from Mr. Dunlap Mr
Kane is advised that steps have been
taken to make an arrest.
Depositors to Lose
Little by Failure.
CHATTANOOGA. July 19.—Local
bankers stated to-day that the lia
bilities of the First National Bank
of Lafayette, Ga., which was an
nounced to-day by Acting Comptroller
of Currency Kane, at Washington. t >
have failed, were approximately $240,-
000, but that depositors would be paid
in full, with but a slight loss to stock
holders, as the assets would prove but
slightly less.
An unsuccessful attempt was made
this morning to obtain a schedule jf
the liabilities and assets of the In
stitution. The officials are extremely
reticent concerning the cause of the
institution’s embarrassment.
Aerial Ferry to Join
Cities in California
Air Pilot Gets Permission to Install
Aeroplane Service Between San
Francisco and Oakland.
SAN FRANCISCO. July 19—The
first aerial ferry’ of the world will
be in operation between San Francis
co and Oakland in September. Per
mission was granted officially to-day
by the Harbor Commission to John L.
Lek as to construct a dock for his
hydroaeroplane.
Lekas recently applied for a per
mit. declaring that he wished to es
tablish a regular passenger service
between the trans-bay cities. Lekas
was before the commission to-day
and satisfied them he was a safe
and sane air pilot.
Motor Cars to Cut
High Cost of Dying
Storage Battery Busses To Be Put
in Service in Chicago as
Funeral Equipage.
CHICAGO. July 19.—The high cost of
dying is to be reduced. Storage battery
motor busses are to be put in service
as funeral cars. The change from car
riages to busses, it Is estimated, will
result in a saving of S3O in the coat of
each funeral. As there are 31,000 fu
nerals In Chicago each year, the gen
eral reduction tn the cost of dying, if
busses were used in all funerals, would
be $930,000.
Girl Fan Loses Teeth
But Stays Out Game
Foul Tip Injures Fair Baseball En
thusiast, but Her Ardor Is
Not Diminished.
ZANESVILLE, OHIO, July 19.
Miss Cora Bauer, of this city, was
struck in the face by a foul tip while
watching a ball game between the
Akron and Zanesville teams here Her
nose was split open, three teeth
knocked out and she may be disfig
ured for life Nevertheless, after
being ti-.i'ed by a physician, she de
cided tu stay out the game,
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ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, JULY 20, 1913.
Congregation Built
Up by Band Concerts
Ohio Pastor With Novel Methods
Now Claims Biggest Sunday
School in World.
CANTON, OHIO. July 19 With the
attraction of a band concert In the
church roof garden and a double or
chestra concert In the church audi
torium, the Rev. P. H. Welshlmer, of
Canton’s First Christian Church, has
built up what he claims Is the big
gest Sunday school In the world with
in five years.
The average attendance in this hot
month of July Is 3,251, The record
attendance Is 4,714. Several Sundays
back 38 babies were checked In the
“babies' check room” of the $90,000
church. The men's class of 250 had
to hold their session in the street
while the teacher explained the lesson
from the tonneau of an automobile.
Doctor Says He Has
Vaccine to Cure Cold
Dead Organisms Found in Blood of
Patient Afflicted With Influenza
Used as Culture.
PHILADELPHIA. July 19 —Claims to
the discovery of a remarkable vaccine
for the cure and prevention of the trou
blesome “cold” known among medical
men as In Influenza are being made by
physicians of the Mulford Laboratory,
near Philadelphia, under the direction
of Dr A. P. Mitchlns.
The vaccine Is composed of the dead
organisms found In the blood of a per
son afflicted with Influenza. These or
gans are Isolated and then an Impure
culture is obtained. Afterward, a saline
solution is used to wash the culture
germs and then the vaccine Is ready for
Injection.
One striking feature of the results of
the vaccine, it is said, is that it cures
diseases allied with the common cold at
the same time It does the “cold.”
3 Drowned Trying
To Avoid Wet Feet
Women Stand Up In Leaky Boat,
Capsizing Craft In View
of Hundreds.
NORRISTOWN. PA.. July 15 —rtTught
In a storm while boating on the Schuyl
kill River, three women, all church
workers, were drowned. They are.
Miss Anna Mary Livergood. Miss
Emma .1. Hex and Miss Helen Green,
all of Norristown
Miss Margaret Green, a sister of Miss
Helen Green, clung to the overturned
boat and was saved
The women were within a quarter of
a mile of the boat landing when the
wind struck them.
The boat began to leak badly To
keep their feet and clothing dry the four
girls stood on the seats. The next In
stant the boat turned over.
Two hundred persons on a boat re
turning from a park saw ’he accident.
Blue Cauliflower Is
Raised in California
Latest Horticultural Product is Hy
brid of Ordinary Cauliflower and
Purple Pickling Cabbage.
OAKLAND. July 19.—Blue cauli
flower, the latest novelty In things
horticultural, was Introduced to the
public to-day by Hugo Lillenthal, in
structor in the University of Cali
fornia. The new plant Is a hybridi
zation of the ordinary cauliflower and
the purple “pickling cabbage.” de
clared by the experts to be a "first
cousin to the cauliflower." The new
vegetable is bright blue in color and
stronger than the ordinary cauliflower
in flavor.
Only a Bathing Suit
Left Friend by Thief
Youth Is Marooned in Atlantic City
When Companion Disappears
With Money and Clothes.
ATLANTIC CITY. July 19.—Arthur
Leonard, a New York youth, spent
the entire day on the beach in his
bathing suit to-day, following thedls
zppearer.ee of his chum, whose name
he refuses to reveal, with four suits of
his clothing and all his money.
Leonard wired his relatives in New
York State telling them of his predic
ament. They came here to-night with
clothing and rescued him.
Billie Burke Wires
She Is Recovering
Actress Was Threatened With Ap
pendicitis, but Did Not Have to
Undergo Operation.
Special Cable to The American.
LONDON. July 19 —Billie Burke, tel
egraphing the London bureau of The
American to-day from Carlsbad in re
ply to an inquiry concerning her health,
says:
"Thanks awfully Wa. threatened
with appendicitis, but have not had to
undergo operation Recovering nicely
“BILLIE BL'KKE.”
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MARTIN W. MULHALL, former lobbyist of National As
sociation of Manufacturers, whose revelations of cor
ruption startled nation.
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Even Take Fizz Out
Os City’s Soda Water
Members of Cincinnati Board of
Health to Censor All Soft
Drinks Sold.
CINCINNATI, July 19.—The "fizz
and bubble” in soda water and gin
ger ale manufactured in this city is
to be no more, if the Board of Health
has its way about the matter, and it
seems likely at this time that its con
tention will hold good. The board
has asked the Council to pass an or
dinance limiting the amount of alco
hol to one-halt of 1 per cent in any
one drink of this kind. If the resolu
tion is passed and made a law no
dealer will be allowed to make soft
drinks without first getting a per
mit.
300 “HELLO GIRLS” ASK
BOSS TO BE BEST MAN
Special Cable to The American.
ROME, July 19. —The Postmaster
General is bewildered over the remit of
the recent permission which he granted
to telephone girls to get married.
Three hundred of the.Me girls promptly
availed themselves of the chance and
everj couple asked the Postmaster Gen
et al to act as best man.
Umbrellas for Farm
Hands Is Inducement
Planter Advertises That He Will
Supply Them With Sulkies, Sun
shades and Ice Cream.
FINDLAY, OHIO, July 19—There
are other communities In this country
that are suffering for a lack of farm
hands besides Kansas It is up to H.
B. Clark, a farmer in the western
part of Hancock County, to make
good, else be prosecuted for false ad
vertising. as provided by the new
newspaper laws.
In a morning paper Mr. Clark is
advertising for farm hands to plow
corn. He says he will provide them
with riding cultivator, a large sun
umbrella for each, Ice water to drink
and all the Ice cream each applicant
can eat every other day. with *2.50 a
day wages.
GREAT BRITAIN IS AFTER
LATEST GERMAN AIR CRAFT
t *ci»l Cabl® to Th® Amorlcan.
BERLIN. July 19.—Great Britain, 1t
in Htuted. 1h negotiating for an L'nger
airship, which la larger, fatter and mor®
g.«l than any others yet designed, in
cluding
Names of Wilson, Taft, Senators and
Congressmen Are Dragged Into the
Testimony, Showing Corporations
Have Set No Limit in Corruption.
STARTLING FACTS REVEALED IN U.S. SENATE
INVESTIGATION OF CONGRESSIONAL LOBBIt
National Association of Manufacturers raised a slush
fund of $500,000 to $700,000 a year to oppose objec
tionable legislation.
Place in Taft Cabinet pledged to manufacturers by
Vorys, Taft manager.
Charges that the big manufacturers had the ears of
Taft, Sherman and Cannon.
List of Congressmen in pay of the National Manufac
turers' Association disclosed. Also, a list of the “un
purchasable,” whom the association hated, and tried
to defeat.
Fights made by National Manufacturers’ Association
on progressive Congressmen and Senators, often
successful.
More than 400 letter tell of plans of association to be
come sinister factor in controlling the wheels of gov
ernment.
Attempts made to foment strife among labor organiza
tions, and to corrupt labor leaders, even G-ompers,
Mitchell and Morrison.
Agreement by Woodrow Wilson with Gompers and
Morrison that he support Hughes for Senate.
Powers of big business fought Hughes because he was
friendly to labor.
Tom Johnson, Senator McComas of Maryland, and oth
ers were political victims of the association’s ven
geance.
Gigantic corruption in Wall Street laid bare in testi
mony of David Lamar.
Forgery on Union Pacific’s books covering item of
$82,000,000 charged.
Senate resolutions hawked about Wall street for sale
to highest bidder.
The nation to-day stands aghast at the sensational revelations
which have come as the result of investigations by the Overman
Committee of the United States Senate into the work of lobbies
at the National Capital.
It has heard how big business combines and Wall Street oper
ators have made and unmade men in public life, influenced legis
lation, dominated public opinion, all the time secret and vigilant.
It has learned how big business has become one of the most
powerful factors in the American civilization, striking in
ill v«iv aa• » a v eau
‘Oh Fudge'Strongest
Language Permitted
Kansas City Starts Crusade Against
Public Swearing—Police
Rebuke Violators.
KANSAS CITY. July 19—Any
thing stronger than "Oh. fudge!"
must not be heard on the streets of
Kansas City hereafter. All the min
isters of the city and all the members
of their churches have started an an
ti-swearing crusade, and part of the
work is to ask persons who are over
heard to swear to consider the vul
garity of it and cease the practice.
The Police Department and the
street railway company have agreed
to join in the crusade, so that here
after it is part of the policeman’s
duty to stop swearing as well as
breaches of the peace.
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Miss Elliott Returns
To Stage To Be Happy
Wil! Play Potiphar’s Wife in Sir Her
bert Tree's “Joseph and
His Brethren.”
Special Cable to The American.
LONDON, July 19 -Maxine Elliott,
yielding to Sir Herbert Tree's persua
sion, will return to the stage Septem
ber 2 in a great production of Louis
N. F'arker’s piay, “Joseph and Hit
Brethren " She will play Potiphar's
wife
Miss Elliott glvea as the chief reason
. for her reappearance that every on® la
| happier when occupied She is now
living in her beautiful house ai Bufhe>.
Just outakis Lo’idom
EDITION FOR
NORTH GEORGIA
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
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against men who opposed It.
It has heard the names of the men
highest in public life. President Wil
son, former President Taft, Senators,
Congressmen, Cabinet members,
dragged into the testimony, and has
learned that certain predatory in
terests have set no limits in their
attempt to corrupt public servants.
The bulk of the startling testi
mony came from Martin M. Mulhall,
for years the servant of the National
Association of Manufacturers, and the
chief lobbyist of that organization
at Washington, and from David La
mar, an operator tn stocks, who Is
known as "The Wolf of Wai! Street.”
Wilson Starts Inquiry.
The investigation began more than
a month ago when President Wilson
declared that a lobby, "insidious and
Industrious" in nature, had long domi
nated tariff legislation. The announce
ment did not come unexpected!’’, how
ever. and there were many Senators
and Congressmen to endorse the Chief
Executive. The Senate began imme
i dlately its investigation of the
| charges, empowering a committee,
headed by Senator Overman, to con
duct the inquiry.
Relatively pointless testimony from
men Interested In the sugar Industry
came first, revealing the fact that
sugar lobbies were the most indus
trious. Lobbyists from Hawaii, the
Philippines and Louisiana defended
their actions by a protest against free
sugar. Former Governor Carter of
Hawaii declared that the elimination
of the duty on sugar would make the
Hawaiian Isiandt merely military
posts, destroying their commercial
prestige. Frank C. Lowry, of the
"free sugar lobby," admitted In the
testimony that *25,900 had been spent
in four years by the Federal Rugar
Refining Company in lobbying opera,
tlone.
Then game the Mulhall testimony.